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Hi! I'm Michael.
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Welcome to this week's useletter.
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The newsletter that's useful. Focussed on your future not my past.
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Right now everyone is making lists
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and discoveries of the year.
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(plus my daughter's home made Christmas card list!)
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Who am I to argue against trope?
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As I was reviewing my most visited posts this year, I noticed they weren’t the ones that people had spent the most time reading. Albeit with some correlation.
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whilst the posts with the most click throughs - because they have a provocative title, or because they match popular search terms - might be of passing interest, they’re hardly a metric of value.
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So instead of my most visited, I’m publishing here my most read. I’m trusting they're the most useful and will prove be useful reading for you over the holidays.
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I would like to thank you for your time and attention over the past year. Whilst I do my best to write something of interest or of use, I don’t take for granted that it'll be read. I’m grateful you keep showing up to read and engage with what I have to say.
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Wishing you a wonderful holiday break.
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May it be restful, joyful, and all that you need and desire.
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PS: I’ll be taking an extended pause from all things unmeasured over much of January. Looking forward to reconnecting with you in the new year.
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Seeking humility
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Here's my posts (in reverse chronological order of writing) that people spent the most time reading in 2024. I can only assume they resonated in some way or were useful. I trust you'll find one or more amongst them all of interest and/or helpful.
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What choosing yourself looks like
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If I could go back 35 years to give myself some advice, it would be “Don’t wait to be chosen. Choose yourself.”
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The best leaders have humility
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I’ll often write that empathy and curiosity are my top leadership skills. Humility is right there alongside them too.
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Don’t just think about it
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This one is personal. It’s not a story about regret but one about joy and love for speaking up.
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Defeating the fears of architectural practice
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Fear is a story in our head justifying inaction. Here are some ways to overcome those stories.
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The problem with architects as artists
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Architecture is its own discipline. Calling it art does not allow for the profession to flourish.
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“I’d rather feel uncomfortable pushing for better than feel uncomfortable settling for less” - Simon Sinek
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Repurposing Architecting Skills: Fail and Iterate
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There's often a focus on how architects have utilised their skills in other careers. Architects can also leverage those skills in better architectural practice. This is the second in a series of articles about this possibility.
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Repurposing Architecting Skills: Designing Possibility
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There’s often a focus on how architects have utilised their skills in other careers. Architects can also leverage those skills in better architectural practice. This is the first in a series of articles about this possibility.
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The culture of practice workshops
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Workshops ending with better practice
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Free 45 minute Practice Clarity Consultation
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recent useful blog posts...
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It might be time for the architecture profession’s leaders to starting learning form the ground up.
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There’s two main ways to stand out. Be different. or Be better. Copying is the route to unexceptional.
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Or…
do architects do too many of the wrong things?
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“Becoming is better than being.”
- Carol Dweck
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