by Dave Hayward | Apr 26, 2025 | Creativity, Art, Life and work, Personal stories, Podcast, Productivity, Psychology, Strategy
How to make peace with arbitrary choices and create meaning anyway “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less travelled by,And that has made all the difference.” It’s hard to beat the final lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. It’s also, famously,...
by Dave Hayward | Apr 17, 2025 | AI, B2B Content Strategy, B2B Marketing, Creativity, Digital marketing, Fractional cmo, Life and work, Marketing, Marketing technology, Psychology, Public speaking
In this episode of Slideshow, host Dave Hayward speaks with marketing and AI expert Nadia Ellis from Curiosity about the transformative power of AI agents in business and personal productivity. Nadia shares her journey from a traditional marketing role to becoming an...
by Dave Hayward | Mar 18, 2025 | AI, Life and work, Productivity, Psychology, Sales
Persuasion and perseverance One of the hardest jobs I ever had was selling coffee in London. In my twenties, I started at a brand new company with no established customer base. Armed with a London A to Z street map, a newly bought suit, and some business cards, I...
by Dave Hayward | Dec 5, 2024 | AI, Life and work, Marketing, Marketing technology, Performance marketing
14,106 martech products (27.8% growth YoY) are on the market in 2024. To be a knowledge worker, and especially a marketer, it helps to be wired to be a novelty seeker. For marketers, when it comes to martech, let alone productivity apps, we’re faced with an...
by Dave Hayward | Oct 12, 2024 | AI, Creativity, Life and work, Psychology
Hallucination is an old term for a new concept. I first heard the term “hallucination” used in connection with AI during a presentation we organised earlier this year with Greg Shove, CEO of Section, hosted by Journey. Greg explained it (and reiterated in Professor...
by Dave Hayward | Sep 17, 2024 | Strategy, Life and work, Productivity
There’s a wonderful purity in starting again. “It’s about letting things go so you can get what you want.” Bert Cooper from Mad Men was talking about account management, but he could easily have been referring to that moment when you realise it’s...
