Jul 20, 2021Grow/Eat/Sell Your Apples — Video Game Economy in Circular FashionI had a lovely chat with Joanna Czutkowna last week about the ecosystem of responsible fashion and how it’s not that circular. You know how much I love harping on about the games industry, well it’s because we’ve nailed the cycle of purchasing and how it feeds back into the…Sustainability9 min readSustainability9 min read
Oct 3, 2020Escaping the Walled GardenWhat feels like 1 million years ago I was given a design problem by a game studio that I was working with as part of a bigger publishing network. This was 2004 and product placement in games was not commonplace at all, though it had been successfully explored by a…Virtual Economies9 min readVirtual Economies9 min read
Apr 8, 2019Pandustrial — The Evolution of WorkingDo you know who you are, what you want to do and where you are going? Do you have a 5-year plan and you’re hitting those end of year targets with a swiftness reserved for only the most psychotic? Hopefully, you’re laughing as you’re reading and you’re shaking your collective…HR7 min readHR7 min read
Mar 27, 2019She Dreams in Analogue: Sky Magazine April 1989 — Part 1When I heard that The Face was coming back to the newsstands, albeit virtually, I began to get very excited. As a writer, we gather our sources and ideas from a variety of places. Though today I do feel a bit devoid of inspiration thanks in part to the glut…Music10 min readMusic10 min read
Published inBDXAlliance·Sep 26, 2018Avenging Initiatives — Why we want to save the worldJamy Nigri is CEO of BDXAlliance and brings a world of experience in investments, development and exits from across all industries. He evangelises what BDXAlliance do with a strong future-proofed focus towards triumph, achievement and more fun than the BDX family can possibly handle. It’s a really interesting time to…Blockchain5 min readBlockchain5 min read
Aug 28, 2018All the things I can’t say on a book tourA few years ago I worked on the biggest and easily the best robot/human franchise this side of Cybertron. It is still to this day, something that makes me really, really proud of as a writer, and as a woman, because when I was doing it, there weren’t that many…Books And Authors4 min readBooks And Authors4 min read
Aug 8, 2018Off the ‘ChainWhen Fiddy found his Bitcoin down the sofa the world pricked up their ears. Not least because this was 50 Cent, his star, seemingly on the wane was doing good business (in 2007, Coca-Cola purchased Glacéau, an exclusive beverage company he’d invested in for $4.1 billion): yes Fiddy was making…50 Cent4 min read50 Cent4 min read
Aug 8, 2018Dogfooding is still in fashionWhen it came to leaving a salaried and regular freelance position to concentrate on my own stuff, I gave myself plenty of time to adjust. …Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Aug 8, 2018The Hurry Up and Wait SyndromeOh it’s been ages since I wrote anything. And it’s for no good reason, except that we moved countries, I sold my interest in a product I made and I had loads of client work. …Freelancing5 min readFreelancing5 min read
Aug 7, 2018Products as a Service — Crypto For EveryoneI invest in things quite regularly. I was urged to do this by some great mentors I’ve had in my career who gave me pointers on supporting talent when you see it. During the last few years I’ve backed software, products and even indie game studios. …Bitcoin5 min readBitcoin5 min read
