Impact entrepreneur. Urban development creative. Founder @YourGameAcademy @_onRedchurch @TPSLondon and more.
London, England
Joined September 2007
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Must remember @dhlexpressuk never to use you again. A day late. No information. An app designed to give you no information. And then a long wait on the line for no answer to an enquiry. Takes some doing to be so non customer-facing. #dhlfail
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Natalie Campbell is standing as an independent candidate.
She is the co-CEO of a sustainable drinks company and has been the chancellor of the University of Westminster since 2022.
📲 Read more on Natalie Campbell here: bbc.in/3JvZlT9
@NatDCampbell
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Table set outside Downing Street for the hostages. Incredibly poignant and powerful.
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The same paper which carries daily panics to frighten parents about moral corruption also commissions this totally uncritical puff piece about a pornographer. Almost like it’s a circular business model. dailymail.co.uk/femail/real-…
wow. 'Multiple Floors of Los Angeles Skyscrapers Are Covered in Graffiti'. The mixed-use development has been unoccupied since 2019. The developer had ran out of money. nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/la…
❤️ this. "“who needs fiction when nothing can be proven to be nonfiction?” 🤓thepointmag.com/criticism/wh…
Such sad news today. Silent Servant and Sandwell Music were just amazing.
RIP Silent Servant.
Read the obituary ra.co/news/80120
Ht @CCP_Swift for joining our @YourGameAcademy zoom call last night. Compelling on the value to social media engagement of speaking like your audience. 🙏
The boringness of #streaming #media is hardly ever mentioned. Loads of scene-setting. Little new action. Everything s.t.r.e.t.c.h.e.d. Zero interaction. Wash, rinse, repeat. Like the Taviani Brothers went mainstream. 🙄 nytimes.com/2024/01/18/opini…
'Mr Bates vs The Post Office' shines a light on the power of journalistically-centred, independent media product. Next up: call time on the Vanity Fair style documentary essays funded and exec'ed by their, er, subjects. ft.com/content/d1bd1208-67b2… via @ft
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A great analogy by @eldsjal to see founders as “curators” or “producers”. A great way to empower teams and scale creativity.
I'm really glad when my team at Spotify proves me wrong, like they did with "Discover Weekly."
People often think founders have everything planned out from the start, but that's at least not true for me. A lot of times, I rely on feedback from our team, customers, and partners. And I change my mind often. My job is a bit of that of a curator or producer - I’m putting together pieces of a puzzle.
When the team first pitched me "Discover Weekly," I wasn't sure about it. I didn't really get why it was special. But the team kept building on it and more and more people internally got excited. When we launched it, I was surprised. Turns out, our users really loved it, and today it's one of the top features on Spotify.
One of the most underrated skills we have in our society is listening. So I’m sending this tweet out in the world as a reminder to myself to work on becoming an ever better listener.
HT The commenter on this piece... "We have become very elderly in our culture" - god, how true this is! 'Creative industries need another Great British Rebrand' ft.com/content/29e2ef1c-acd9… via @ft
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14. We can't complain that leaders lack seriousness, if we reward them for being "fun".
We can't be surprised at rule-breaking, when we tell our leaders that the rules don't apply.
We can't protest at government by fantasists, if we indulge their historical fantasies.
It’s happening! Conversion of office space to residential…acting as a trigger to new, more domesticated retail. #downtown #turnaround nytimes.com/2023/11/17/nyreg…
"There was a space for me to be able to breathe a set of identities that IRL just wasn't acceptable." - love this profile of contemporary artist Larry Achiampong on the power and freedom of video games. 🤓lnkd.in/eV5bEwGc #videogames #art #identity
"What happened on 7 October had nothing to do with resistance. It had nothing to do with occupation or a one or two-state solution. It was about something far more ancient and atavistic — the desire to kill Jews wherever they are and whoever they are. And against that there can be no retreat." @UnHerd unherd.com/2023/10/i-watched…
'Office space vacancies in US and London reach at least 20-year highs' - yet there's still next to no chat on the adaptive re-use of commercial urban districts ft.com/content/698f41af-0d88… via @ft
