Brighton Dynamic from The Skiff I’ve been reading the updated and expanded edition of one of my favourite books, Deploy Empathy. It’s a practical guide to interviewing customers that I often recommend to clients. Though it’s written for people building software products, its lessons apply to any business. The new edition introduces the Four Forces model from Jobs-to-be-Done theory. It got me thinking about reframing what I've learned from talking to people like you when considering coworking:...

Brighton Dynamic from The Skiff I heard something troubling recently – twice, from two different people. They thought The Skiff had closed, or that we’d changed hands during the pandemic, like other workspaces that didn’t make it. Bonkers, right? The truth is, The Skiff’s in the best shape it’s been in over five years. Honestly, I think it’s better now than when we had a bigger space. We’re actually plotting what version 5.0 of The Skiff might look like. Next year will mark the company’s 20th...

Brighton Dynamic from The Skiff I built a thing as fun side project at Urlbox. It's a fresh perspective on the web. A way to explore the top one million homepage screenshots. You can zoom, pan and click to navigate. It's called One Million Screenshots. There are far fewer than one million screenshots in this image There are a surprising number of Sussex based websites among the top one million. For me, browsing around was a little like taking a walk around Brighton and occasionally bumping...