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James Routledge
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Aug 18, 2022

Building connection through communities, creators, and ads

Instagram has received a lot of pressure after its recent trial of TikTok-like features, to the point where Adam M has now chosen to publicly apologise in respond to the community’s backlash. These were bold changes, and bullish given a quick review of where both players are. Instagram is already…

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Building connection through communities, creators, and ads
Building connection through communities, creators, and ads

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Mar 15, 2021

Why you feel alone where you live

Loneliness is something most of us feel at home. The vast majority of people know only a couple of neighbors and while many communities now have a hyperlocal street Facebook, Nextdoor or Whatsapp group how we feel in our areas hasn’t changed much. Connection, and feeling connected, are two entirely…

Loneliness

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Why you feel alone where you live
Why you feel alone where you live
Loneliness

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Mar 8, 2021

Clubhouse will replace day-time TV

What is Clubhouse — Clubhouse is the social network we all needed in 2020, in a disconnected world where we all created free time from the efficiencies of being in a single place (at home) someone built a way for us to keep talking. Such a simple idea, one so stimulating our socially starved…

Social

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Clubhouse will replace day-time TV
Clubhouse will replace day-time TV
Social

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Nov 5, 2020

COVID-safe customer testing: part 1

99% of companies today have lost their way to validate that customers want what they’re currently building. This series will put your process through its paces as well as teaching new tricks along the way. Part 1 is dedicated to making sure what you want to learn isn’t going to…

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Nov 5, 2020

Challenge your product strategy, with three lenses

Building products that end up being ubiquitous in the world normally requires a number of methods to earn the lofty heights that are your front page app on your iPhone. Let’s unpick how you can aim for much-coveted 10x metric jumps Doubling the TAM Traditionally products are launched into a single home market…

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Challenge your product strategy, with three lenses
Challenge your product strategy, with three lenses

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Nov 5, 2020

How to find and solve a product problem: Part 1 — Planning

This is part 1 in a series exploring how to solve a product unknown. In this part, we’ll define an unknown worth solving, how we want to solve it and a basic structure to learning these insights from (potential) users. Onwards! This work starts with the simple truth, at this…

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How to find and solve a product problem: Part 1 — Planning
How to find and solve a product problem: Part 1 — Planning

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Oct 15, 2020

Being hired as an assistant is about conveying strength and sensitivity

I just received this request on LinkedIn: Hi James, Thanks for connecting, Just reaching out as the world starts to normalise though the current climate remains uncertain as you might need some administrative support. I have taken the plunge and set up my own Executive/personal Assistant company! It’s a lovely…

Assistant Jobs

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Assistant Jobs

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Oct 13, 2020

The 2x Rule

If what you share fits in the category of an For Your Information (FYI) then it should be conveyed at 2x speed. How do I share information twice as fast? Record it and share your updates via links that support faster transmission. Youtube gives you this for free; set your videos to unlisted for a private solution which as a phone-friendly way share video&audio updates I want to index what I share. Otter.ai allow not only 2x playback but also has built-in transcription; you can paste voice notes into other apps like Slack with a full text.

Meetings

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The 2x Rule
The 2x Rule
Meetings

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Oct 12, 2020

Reviewing your company’s organisational design

Many people are currently reviewing how they design the structure of their companies to embrace a new normal. But even in historically remote companies, the same basic structures have persisted. …

Organisational Design

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Organisational Design

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Aug 31, 2020

Part 3: What’s next for local communities?

We love predicting the future. Unfortunately, we are dreadful at doing it. Just think about the number of science fiction films predicting the year 2020, and how wrong they were. It makes you think: Imagine the power we’d all have if we could see in the future. …

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