“Writing is not magic. It’s a process, a machine for revealing our thinking to us, for helping us see its patterns.”
— Elizabeth McGuane at Leading with Tempo
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“Writing is not magic. It’s a process, a machine for revealing our thinking to us, for helping us see its patterns.”
— Elizabeth McGuane at Leading with Tempo
Lauren LaPope’s intro slide from her Lead With Tempo 20225 talk on creativity.
Lauren LaPope’s slide from her Lead With Tempo 20225 talk on creativity reading “Are content and creativity compatible?”
Lauren LaPope’s slide from her Lead With Tempo 20225 talk on creativity reading “People need to feel safe to be creative.”
Lauren LaPope’s slide from her Lead With Tempo 20225 talk on creativity reading “Or be weird. That works, too.”
Watching a great talk from @lapope.bsky.social on creativity at Lead With Tempo 2025
And it’s designed like a zine!
"Best practices have to start somewhere — why not with you, your team, and your practice?"
— @lapope.bsky.social at Lead with Tempo 2025
Andy Welfle, content designer at Glean, speaking at Lead with Tempo 2025. On-screen is a slide about craft, featuring a scene from “Toy Story”.
Love an @andy.wtf talk ❤️
Erin Sian Williams, McDonald’s Senior Director of Global Experience Design, presenting at Lead With Tempo 2025. Her slide reads, “You’re a leader first. Content second. Being different is your strength.”
“You’re a leader first, content comes second. Your function doesn’t define you.”
— Erin Sian Williams, McDonald’s Senior Director of Global Experience Design at Lead With Tempo 2025
It’s just a few days until Lead with Tempo in London (and online!) and there’s still time to join us www.leadwithtempo.com
If you loved Config or WIC conferences this week then you will LOVE Lead with Tempo that happens in just 4 week’s time!
www.leadwithtempo.com
Washed and blow dried my hair this morning and promptly got crapped on by a pigeon on the way to work. Just a little Monday morning reminder that some days you’re the bird and some days you’re the statue.
A stage and lecturn with someone in a black and white top speaking and gesturing
At last year’s Lead With Tempo we had some brilliant talks, such as this one from Danielle Small. You can watch them all on the Lead With Tempo You Tube channel, and don’t forget to get yourself a ticket to join us this year!
Questions and discussions are an integral part of Lead With Tempo. Come along and ask your content design heroes some questions!
Take 20% off any ticket between now and Friday with code SPRING20.
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Flash sale on conference tickets for the next week! Use code SPRING20 for 20% off at www.leadwithtempo.com
Top tip, keep a word search book lying around, and whenever you’re tempted to scroll through the misery on your phone, do a word search instead.
All the Lead with Tempo speakers are going to blow your minds! (And mine!) here’s a taster
I loved reading @rachelmcconnell.bsky.social's interview with the always-great @lapope.bsky.social for the upcoming Lead with Tempo conference.
"When you gloss over the complexity, nuance, and detail, you miss so much… it shuts down so many opportunities to learn."
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In a couple of weeks prices move to standard, so make the most of the early ticket rates and join me in person in June!
www.leadwithtempo.com
Today’s the last day!
Blue background with pale pink tiles with speaker headshots, and the wording Lead with Tempo conference 2025, braver leadership, June 12th London and virtual, tickets on sale now www.leadwithtempo.com
Take 20% off any ticket between now and Friday using code JAN20
Blue background with pale pink tiles with speaker headshots, and the wording Lead with Tempo conference 2025, braver leadership, June 12th London and virtual, tickets on sale now www.leadwithtempo.com
Take 20% off any ticket between now and Friday using code JAN20
I like getting the night bus as it’s just full of teenagers that can’t afford taxis and I get to listen to all their fascinating conversations.
Good to see the BBC covering the important political stories of the day. What’s your favoured mid-week lunch?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A small boy with blond hair screams at himself in the mirror
It’s time #HomeAlone
It’s so weird that a recruiter reaches out to someone, asks to speak to them, arranges a time and then doesn’t show up. How have we reached this level of contempt for people’s time and emotional energy?
Hi folks! I’m planning my 2025 and I’ve set a goal to sell 5 workshops. One is sold already. Can you help me sell 4 more? Pls share or interact with this post and help a small, immigrant woman-run business survive this wild time! www.linkedin.com/posts/jane-r...
Today I republished my book (after sadly losing my original publisher, A Book Apart earlier this year). Yes it’s been a rough year, but at least I’ve achieved one thing! a.co/d/aedCs2p
If you've been thinking about learning some UX writing fundamentals, @rosenfeldmedia.bsky.social put my book, “Writing Is Designing” on sale for 33% off! Rather than the usual $50 for the paper book and ebook, it's now only $33.49.
writingisdesigning.com
It seems to get more and more sinister by the day.
Aha, that must be what it is!
Wednesday is ‘Podcast day’ as some of my favourites drop. But this week’s pods have such a random collection of guests - Derren Brown, Kim Cattrell and Vanessa Williams - that I feel like we’ve gone back to 2006. What’s happening?
So apt for me!
Maybe someday, women in America will have as many rights as guns do.