Weeknotes

Week 69 — 11 October 2024
Projects ending, projects starting and styles of confrontation
Week 68 — 4 October 2024
Annual planning, long-lived businesses and collaborative budgeting
Week 67 — 27 September 2024
Career moats, portfolios, and life sciences
Week 66 — 20 September 2024
Annual planning, molecular biology, spirits portfolios and travel
Week 56 — 12 July 2024
Travel, creative presentations and designing dashboards
Week 55 — 5 July 2024
Travel brands, annual planning and sampling
Week 54 — 28 June 2024
Workshops, off-sites, information-absorption and anniversaries
Week 49 — 24 May 2024
Creative workshops, new projects and growing distribution
Week 48 — 17 May 2024
New relationships, sweet workshops, buyer meetings and word games
Week 47 — 10 May 2024
Coffees, serendipity and merch
Week 46 — 3 May 2024
Sweets, manufacturers, influencers and variation
Week 45 — 26 April 2024
Pricing data, store shelves and fractal side projects
Week 44 — 19 April 2024
Whisky galore and winning retail listings
Week 40 — 22 March 2024
MSG and B Corp values
Week 37 — 1 March 2024
Big RFPs, filling packs and starting a factory
Week 36 — 23 February 2024
Cornish trips and transport woes
Week 35 — 16 February 2024
Workshops, blitzes and conflicts of interest
Week 34 — 9 February 2024
Bow waves and booze brands
Week 33 — 2 February 2024
Reflections on an away day
Week 32 — 26 January 2024
Bandages, Relative lunches and the scarcity of ideas
Week 31 — 19 January 2024
Consumer portraits, big pitches and the merits of consultants
Week 30 — 12 January 2024
Ad briefings, pitches, Finnish culture and executive off-sites
Week 29 — 5 January 2024
Collective genius, bakery ads and dungarees
Week 26 — 15 December 2023
Six months in
Week 25 — 8 December 2023
Project completions, schmoozing, strategy offers and setting visions
Week 24 — 1 December 2023
Mixed bags, Chinese food, productisation and psychotherapy
Week 23 — 24 November 2023
Focused weeks, Chinese ingredients, brand strategy and Hotel Chocolat
Week 22 — 17 November 2023
Youthful sweets, tired biscuits and bleak stats
Week 21 — 10 November 2023
Beans, agencies, sweets and startups
Week 20 — 3 November 2023
Creating partnerships, investment banks, working time and losing pitches
Week 19 — 27 October 2023
Agency strategy, gut health, and pack redesigns
Week 18 — 20 October 2023
Pitching, workshops, filling knowledge gaps and pondering agencies
Week 17 — 13 October 2023
Recruitment, whisky business, sad films and hot custard
Week 16 — 6 October 2023
Tissues, pet food, and Scotch
Week 15 — 29 September 2023
Baileys, birthdays, visual inspiration, and randomness
Week 14 — 22 September 2023
New offices, new starts, Italian booze, pitching
Week 13 — 15 September 2023
Beginning weeknotes, emailing, a new startup