At 16 years old, while still at school, John Haynes realised that “Cars are what I lived for”. He bought an Austin Seven Saloon, dismantled it, and built a lightweight, open two-seater sports car. Then he had an idea – as he explains in this BBC News interview by Mark Miodownik from last year, “I thought to [...]
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How to make the next 12 months your best yet – without setting a single goal
Posted by John on April 5th, 2010
For a lot of us, particularly creative people, conventional goal setting and planning techniques just don’t work. So how do we engineer a great life for ourselves without all that SMART goal malarkey? One doing the whole variety of stuff we enjoy while making a great living at the same time? I gave a talk [...]
Welcome to the universe(s)
Posted by John on March 11th, 2010
I mention in Screw Work Let’s Play the theory that there are parallel universes. The theory suggests that for every choice you make, there is another universe where the opposite choice plays out. Now, I use this idea simply as a thought experiment to allow you to think what it would be like to be able [...]
Introducing your playbook
Posted by John on March 9th, 2010
As I write in Chapter 2 of Screw Work Let’s Play, don’t wait for some lightning bolt of insight on the the work you’d most like to do. Instead, you can build a picture of where you’re heading piece by piece. Get yourself a nice little notebook and carry it everywhere. This is your playbook. Every [...]
A comic about a Choc-Mobile
Posted by John on March 8th, 2010
In Screw Work Let’s Play, I open the chapter on “How to work out what you really really want” with a story about Petra Barran. Petra has had several interesting careers and now owns the UK’s only touring choc-mobile, Choc Star. Not only does Petra have a rather unusual business but she also tells its [...]
