PinnedWhy I get up to work on something I hateI really loathed “content”. In many ways, I still do. In a former life as a journalist, and then a consultant, I sat through hours of…Feb 11, 2021Feb 11, 2021
Why we’ve built Outline AI, the tool for writersMy cousin, who is a terrible misanthrope, maintains a hard and fast view of existence: “There are those who think, and those who don’t.”Feb 10, 2023Feb 10, 2023
How journalists become one-person media brandsFirst came traditional journalism, then the creator economy. Now, there’s a new way of working.Mar 23, 20221Mar 23, 20221
Productising content, and all that JaaSI wanted to share some of the ways we’re innovating in content at HSG. It’s early days, but we’re excited to be cracking on!Feb 25, 2022Feb 25, 2022
The Startup NewsroomInnovation in media has barely started. Here’s why the future lies with non-media businesses.Feb 8, 20221Feb 8, 20221
The content economy (or ‘The case for curation’)Curation is positive-sum. You can derive value from it even if the content creator — who may well be a direct competitor — does too.Mar 28, 2021Mar 28, 2021
You’re not a VC, you’re a media company that buys equity in startupsThe right content evolves the VC–founder relationship from a 1:1 to a 1:many. Thinking like a media company is how you scale.Mar 10, 2021Mar 10, 2021
Media platforms: A 5,000 year-old noveltyHumans started writing around 5,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia (and also in China, Central America and Egypt). For a good millennium…Feb 18, 2021Feb 18, 2021
Yesterday was “Fat Cat Thursday”.In the first week of every January, an organisation called the High Pay Centre puts out the same jolly nugget of news: on the first…Jan 5, 2018Jan 5, 2018
Train ticket prices have gone up by 3.4 percent across the countryThat’s the largest average increase in five years, and it means that many commuters will see their season tickets, which are regulated and…Jan 5, 2018Jan 5, 2018