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Unbound: from idea in a pub to award-winning publishing platform

In an extract from his new book Dan Kieran shares his start-up story. Read how he went from pints in the pub with two friends to publishing Unbound’s first book… It was October 2009 and I arrived at the Bricklayers Arms in Soho to meet fellow writers and friends John…

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Unbound: from idea in a pub to award-winning publishing platform
Unbound: from idea in a pub to award-winning publishing platform
Books

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Want to write the next binge-worthy Netflix series, but don’t know where to start?

Lucy Gannon on why you should overcome your doubts and begin. ‘Scene 1…’ — ‘I think new screenwriters are too worried it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you.’ — David Lynch My first play was on the shortlist for the Richard Burton Drama Award. We were not theatregoers, my husband and me, so when we were invited to…

Screenwriting

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Want to write the next binge-worthy Netflix series, but don’t know where to start?
Want to write the next binge-worthy Netflix series, but don’t know where to start?
Screenwriting

7 min read


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·Sep 19

Why Hope is the energy charge we all need

The moment I was told to let go of hope was the same moment I defiantly lashed myself to it, as if to the mast of a raft in a storm. In defiance of defeat, I was keeping myself tied fast to hope when those I looked to for it…

Hope

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Why Hope is the energy charge we all need
Why Hope is the energy charge we all need
Hope

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·Jul 31

Don’t try to be interesting. DO interesting

Interesting isn’t a personality type, it’s a set of habits and a way of seeing the world. Russell Davies shares more in this excerpt from Do Interesting. I’ve been circling the idea of ‘interestingness’ for the last 30 years. Some years ago, I was invited to go to the University of Oregon and teach the advertising students something. Since they were all…

Smart Working

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Don’t try to be interesting. DO interesting
Don’t try to be interesting. DO interesting
Smart Working

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·Mar 1

When (and why) to leave the business you built

In an extract from his new book, Do Start, Dan Kieran tells us — from first-hand experience as co-founder and former CEO of publishing platform Unbound — how to know when your work is done. When I was making the decision to leave Unbound, I came across the Jungian idea…

Books

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When (and why) to leave the business you built
When (and why) to leave the business you built
Books

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·Sep 20, 2022

What’s wrong with our money?

Angelo Morgan-Somers explains Bitcoin and what makes it so significant — The world in the 2000s was unstable. The supply of US dollars was increasing. Mortgage-backed securities became the backbone of the economy, and, well … 2008 showed us how that went. By early 2009, headlines from newspapers such as The Times’s from 3 January, ‘Chancellor on brink of second bailout…

Bitcoin

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What’s wrong with our money?
What’s wrong with our money?
Bitcoin

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·Aug 15, 2022

Not sure what to do next? Improvise.

The simple yet highly-effective way to cope with the unplanned and the unexpected. Life, basically. — When I wrote Do Improvise back in 2012, I knew some people would find it an interesting and useful book. I had a hunch that a few might become enthusiasts, even fans — and happily for me, I was right. But I never dreamed that some would carve these ideas…

Improvisation

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Not sure what to do next? Improvise.
Not sure what to do next? Improvise.
Improvisation

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·Mar 29, 2022

Make your garden grow

It’s Spring, and time to start sowing seeds. Pioneering farmer Alice Holden shares tips and advice — Not long ago my Uncle Roger, also a grower, said to me, ‘Seeds want to grow.’ Simple as it sounds, his comment struck me. A seed is a package of life that is well equipped to survive. It is merely waiting, lying dormant until the necessary conditions combine. …

Life Skills

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Make your garden grow
Make your garden grow
Life Skills

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·Feb 15, 2022

‘After you’, ‘No, I insist, after you!’

Why we need to be less British when it comes to negotiation. — In business, like they say, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. — Jay Z, Decoded There is a perceived British tendency to politely sit back and let others come to you with their best offer when it comes to negotiation. …

Negotiation

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‘After you’, ‘No, I insist, after you!’
‘After you’, ‘No, I insist, after you!’
Negotiation

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·Aug 23, 2021

Healing strategies for humankind

Tamsin Omond on the collective action and community engagement needed to tackle climate change — ‘People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.’ — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark I spent my twenties scared of climate disaster and busy organising. In my…

Climate Change

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Healing strategies for humankind
Healing strategies for humankind
Climate Change

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