You gotta do it all Hi, folks. I don’t publish much here any more. To follow my writing, do please sign up to ‘Oscillations’, a Substack newsletter I’ve created. Why call it ‘oscillations’? I explain it here. (This piece is a crosspost) I’m embarking on my fourth startup adventure. I’ve been involed in three different…

Hi folks. I don’t publish much here any more. If you fancy following my writing, do please sign up to ‘Oscillations’, a Substack newsletter where I look for lessons in growth from all aspects of work & life, making them applicable to all areas of work & life. Why’s it…

Perhaps helpful to apply Clay Christensen's 'Jobs to be Done' theory to journalism when you're trying to ascertain the value people place on it. What do we hire journalism 'bundles' to do for us? By way of comparison, what do we hire a Disney+ subscription to do? Journalism is more…

For anyone who couldn’t attend Granda’s funeral online, here below is the eulogy, penned by me, read on the day by my cousin Mark Yendole. And an old video above, created almost ten years ago. /// Roman philosopher Seneca said “So it is: we are not given a short…

If she hadn’t already passed away — Ireland is not a good country when it comes to talking about death in a sensible way. In fact, in 2013, we’ve been having two national conversations about death - badly. …

(I’m cycling 100 miles for the cause in October — please donate) — The words below comprise the most personally distressing article I ever chose to write. My mum had a short and intense battle with MS in her mid-forties, which she swiftly lost in 2004 aged 49. I wrote about it in September 2008, a little over four years later, and just…

Your hot takes might put you out of a job — and not for the reason you think — When TRONC posted a job for a ‘content specialist’ last week, future-of-news-watchers and journalists at large lost their collective minds. Here’s a few lines from the job description: Develop, maintain and upgrade content-harvesting robots Develop and refine news ontology Familiarity with taxonomic classification and/or news content management systems is desirable.

Big Data, Small Screens — Twice in two weeks, Columbia Journalism School has demonstrated that a) it considers data journalism to be a crucial part of journalism’s future but b) that it still doesn’t get how vital design thinking for data journalism to work on the medium where it will be consumed. Let me be…

The ‘Trust in Journalism’ debate was sparked by a Pew Report that means absolutely nothing, unless you like sitting on a steam-powered news train, facing backwards. Disregard it. — Pic via Flickr user Vagawi: https://flic.kr/p/5NQfz1 When Pew released its survey on trust in the media, there was more than a bit of gloating at who came last (It was Buzzfeed), and a lot of debate about what it means. The media world’s chin-strokers-in-chief wondered where all the trust leaked…