Geek Boss

This blog is about refactoring management from a humane, geeky perspective. I’m trying to be a better leader and manager and sharing what I learn, one article at a time. Plus some stuff about Lego, computer games and other obsessions.

I’m CEO at Articulate Marketing and Turbine and long ago at Intelligent Games. I geek out about wine at Vincarta.

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Photo of Richard Feynman, taken in 1984 in the woods of the Robert Treat Paine Estate in Waltham, MA, while he and the photographer worked at Thinking Machines Corporation on the design of the Connection Machine CM-1/CM-2 supercomputer.

Richard Feynman and the pleasure of finding things out

This BBC Horizon programme about Richard Feynman inspired me when I was a boy and I found it again...

Zork I advert - 'Your greatest challenge lies ahead - and downwards'

How GeekBoss got its name and the ‘muddle’ of coding for Zork

How GeekBoss got its name and how Zork's creators devised a unique programming language to bring...

'All behind you Winston' - Low cartoon showing wartime cabinet rolling up their sleeves and marching behind Winston Churchill

How to run a collaborative change management project (video)

Over the last 18 months, I have been running some huge change projects at my marketing agency. This...

Interview with Stephen Bungay: historian, writer and management guru

Stephen Bungay is a management consultant, academic and author of two remarkable books about the...

Woman holding her finger to her lips as if to say 'silence please'

Silence is golden: how to soundproofing your writing room

It's difficult to figure out how to write in a world that's full of distractions. Here are a few...

Matthew Stibbe and Totoro at Studio Ghibli Museum

How to ask someone to be your business mentor

Mentors are a blessing for aspiring entrepreneurs and managers. But there's a good way and a bad...