by Dave Hayward | May 10, 2025 | Psychology, Creativity, Personal stories, Productivity, Strategy
On decision fatigue: “Good decision making is not a trait of the person, in the sense that it’s always there. It’s a state that fluctuates.” Roy Baumeister One late Spring in the 90s, my cousin Trish and I had exams. We had plenty of time and a...
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 20, 2025 | AI, AI agents, AI RAG, B2B Marketing, Founder-led marketing, Fractional cmo, Marketing, Marketing as a service, Marketing technology, Nadia Ellis, Personal stories, Podcast, Psychology, Public speaking, RAG, Slideshow, Strategy
Time to stop worrying and start building your hive of AI agents When I first started thinking seriously about AI agents, I felt the same way I did when I first encountered AI. Too technical. Too complex. A little too much time upfront. I’m fortunate to be surrounded...
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 | Feb 3, 2025 | Creativity, Art, Content, Copywriting, Productivity, Psychology, Strategy
The tension between structure and magic makes successful creative You may not know this about me, but I trained as an artist and am a painter (although I don’t get to practice much these days). One of my sketches is the header image of this article (no AI here!)....
