Weeknotes
Weekly updates and learnings.
- Projects ending, projects starting and styles of confrontation
- Annual planning, long-lived businesses and collaborative budgeting
- Career moats, portfolios, and life sciences
- Annual planning, molecular biology, spirits portfolios and travel
- Travel, creative presentations and designing dashboards
- Travel brands, annual planning and sampling
- Workshops, off-sites, information-absorption and anniversaries
- Creative workshops, new projects and growing distribution
- New relationships, sweet workshops, buyer meetings and word games
- Coffees, serendipity and merch
- Sweets, manufacturers, influencers and variation
- Pricing data, store shelves and fractal side projects
- Whisky galore and winning retail listings
- MSG and B Corp values
- Big RFPs, filling packs and starting a factory
- Cornish trips and transport woes
- Workshops, blitzes and conflicts of interest
- Bow waves and booze brands
- Reflections on an away day
- Bandages, Relative lunches and the scarcity of ideas
- Consumer portraits, big pitches and the merits of consultants
- Ad briefings, pitches, Finnish culture and executive off-sites
- Collective genius, bakery ads and dungarees
- Six months in
- Project completions, schmoozing, strategy offers and setting visions
- Mixed bags, Chinese food, productisation and psychotherapy
- Focused weeks, Chinese ingredients, brand strategy and Hotel Chocolat
- Youthful sweets, tired biscuits and bleak stats
- Beans, agencies, sweets and startups
- Creating partnerships, investment banks, working time and losing pitches
- Agency strategy, gut health, and pack redesigns
- Pitching, workshops, filling knowledge gaps and pondering agencies
- Recruitment, whisky business, sad films and hot custard
- Tissues, pet food, and Scotch
- Baileys, birthdays, visual inspiration, and randomness
- New offices, new starts, Italian booze, pitching
- Beginning weeknotes, emailing, a new startup