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The ‘Shirky Principle’ is one of my all-time favorite quotes about disruption. It suggests that there needs to be a breakaway from holding

A trusting culture isn’t the result of happy hours and foosball tables. It comes from all the little cues and signals that shape

Rethink with Rachel, the little newsletter I started four years ago, has been honoured with a nomination for the prestigious Webby Award in the

In our everyday lives, our threshold for waiting has declined. A slow-loading website, a delayed flight or food delivery, or simply waiting in

My #RethinkRead for this week is an oldie but a goodie, Silence: In the Age of Noise by the Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge.

He spent

How do we get out of the "what comes next" mindset? I've been thinking a lot about short-term vs. long-term thinking. Organisations stress

As systems, cities, tech and companies get bigger, they can become more efficient and productive. However, with scale often comes more hierarchy, bureaucracy

How can we rethink the principles of scale in our lives and organisations?

Scale shapes our lives in fascinating and profound ways – some

As a society, we tend to place a lot of weight and value on grand gestures. As a result, we don’t appreciate how

I’ve always found the arrival of new seasons, especially Spring, tremendously reassuring. Like a steady heartbeat to the year. The cyclical nature of

My #RethinkRead for this week is The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt. It’s a masterpiece!

Since 2010, rates of depression, addiction, attention fragmentation, self-harm

Starting a new writing project always feels like an exciting but daunting challenge, especially when you're experimenting with a different medium.

My new BBC4 Radio

Whether we're in school, at home or at work, many incentives are based on future promises; grades and bonuses are forms of delayed

Do you trust the people in charge to keep their promises?

For decades, the famous Marshmallow Experiment led by renowned psychologist Walter Mischel was

My #RethinkRead for this week is Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at The Wharton School which looks at AI through the roles it

Two great quotes I came across this week that got me thinking about the truth and trust:

"Without facts, you can’t have truth.

Fairness is a word we use a lot these days. I'm interested to know, which definition of fairness resonates the most with

When you think of fairness what comes to mind?

There is a thread I keep hearing running through conversations on everything from AI decision-making

Frictionless design enables people to accomplish tasks using minimal cognition and effort. That might be wonderful for commerce but not great for

How do we visualise uncertainty, and why does this matter?

I’m passionate about helping people think more like designers. Typically, a designer has to