Taken from my newsletter, sent September 26th 2026
The Versions We Leave Behind
Taken from my newsletter, sent September 12th 2026
The Cream Doesn’t Always Float to the Top
Taken from my newsletter, sent August 26th 2026
Who is Allowed to Be Human?
Taken from my newsletter, sent August 1st 2026
Nothing to Do With Fireworks
Taken from my newsletter, sent July 4th 2026
Taken from my newsletter, sent June 20th 2026
Blame No Longer Interests Me
Taken from my newsletter, sent June 6th 2026
Looking Back Without Staring
Taken from my newsletter, Memorial Day 2026
Conversations about purpose, identity, and the messy middle for people navigating change or burnout.
Jump.Global Helped Me Find My Centre Again
Why everyone should go to Jump Global Summit 2026!
An Excerpt from My Forthcoming Book, 12 Steps to Success: Finding Your Purpose
Lessons on Hope from my Mum
What the Death Industry Taught Me About the Music Business
On legacy, empathy, and the quiet business of what remains
The CEO as Content Creator (and Why That Terrifies Me)
Apparently, it’s not enough to run a company anymore, you have to narrate the experience while you’re doing it. Leadership is now a live performance.
It Shouldn’t Take a Breakdown
What happens when culture that has normalised 'collapse' as entertainment and how to we come back from this to genuinely care again?
The Untapped Power of Scripted TV
A deep dive into music-driven TV shows. Not just the ones that use music as wallpaper, but the ones where music is the story; and what would it take to create more of these shows, and make them globally sustainable?
Adventures in Vibe Coding
From experimentation born out of necessity, here's my journey (so far) into the mind blowing - and sometimes mind-boggling - world of Vibe Coding!
Breaking Borders: What J-Pop Can Learn from K-Pop’s Global Playbook
Japan produces world-class music, with songwriting, production, and performance standards equal to any major market, but has not translated that into consistent global presence. It’s a music industry built for domestic dominance, treating the rest of the world as optional - while neighbouring South Korea, with a market a third the size, has spent the last 20 years building an export machine
SESAC’s $889M Debt Raise: What It Signals for Strategy, Restructuring, and Stakeholders
SESAC has just executed one of the most ambitious capital moves we’ve seen in the music services space to date. Through a whole-business securitisation, the company has raised $889 million in senior notes, bringing its total debt load to approximately $1.1 billion.
AI Isn't the Apocalypse. It's Just the Music Industry Doing What It Always Does
Everyone's got an opinion on AI right now. Panic. Outrage. Wild optimism. Deep fear. And understandably so as the pace of development is staggering, and the implications for creativity, authorship, and income are massive.
As the Majors Consolidate Power, What Does “Independent” Even Mean Anymore?
12 Steps to Success Book 2 - Coming Soon!
Book Two Is Coming: From Leadership to Purpose, and Why the Next Chapter Matters Even More
Bring Back the Middle-Class Songwriter; Reinvented, Not Forgotten
In the so-called “glory days” of the music industry, there was room for the middle-class songwriter. These writers were a creative force who weren’t famous, but could make a sustainable living writing album tracks, contributing to niche projects, or landing syncs in ads and TV. They weren’t household names, but they were the engine of musical diversity and innovation. Today, that space has all but vanished. The industry has shifted towards extremes: chart-topping stars at the top, struggling independents at the bottom, and a vast void in between.
The Future of AI Can’t Come at the Cost of Human Creativity
There’s been a lot of noise lately around the UK government’s stance on AI – and I’ve got to be honest, it’s completely understandable why it has raised some serious alarm bells with all of us in the creative industries. Not because we’re against progress or scared of tech (this couldn’t be further from the truth), but because it feels like our rights and the rights of the incredibly talented creators that we get the honour to work with – the very core of what makes creativity valuable – are being treated as collateral damage in the race to lead the AI arms race.
