Notes on AI, design thinking, and what it actually takes to ship.
Four small changes that made craftscale.uk easier for AI agents to read: a site summary at /llms.txt, serving plain markdown to agents that ask for it, advertising the site's other resources in HTTP headers, and a robots.txt that explicitly welcomes the AI crawlers.
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AI has a role in creative work — but only if we use it with intent. Here's how to bring AI into each stage of Enterprise Design Thinking without letting it do the thinking for you.
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My talk on what it's like to be a podcaster, delivered at the Ilkley Arts lightning talks event in December 2024.
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Summary of the talk I gave in November 2024 at the Mindstone AI meetup in London.
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Revisiting 3D virtual environments for work — from IBM's Second Life experiments in 2006 to trying Horizon Workrooms in 2022. Why VR still feels like a significant future for remote teamwork, even if today's metaverse isn't quite there yet.
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A walkthrough of my six-stage podcast editing process — from assembling audio in Ferrite Recording Studio, through strip silence and review passes, to final audio engineering. A starting point for building your own editing approach.
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How to use Notion databases to manage a podcast's production — tracking episodes, guests, recording and release dates, and editing status across calendar, table, and status-board views.
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A practical guide to putting together and delivering a 90-second lightning talk, using a three-part context, story, and call-to-action structure you can prepare even on the day of the event.
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