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Hi, my name is Leo.
I'm interested in technology, culture, and change.
At Culture3, we're experimenting with ideas about how they intersect to shape a better future for humanity.
I'm always delighted to talk about anything even at all tangentially related to my writing or my photography.
What I've learnt...
My story, so far
I went to four very different schools
LESSON: change happens, and you can choose whether to make the most of it or not
I grew up in a little village called Brockham
LESSON: if you want to make something happen, be it a treehouse or social change, you have to take the initiative (and you can)
Interned in the government
LESSON: huge organisations rely on bureaucracy, but it becomes an addiction
Dreams crushed by Covid
LESSON: change happens, and you can choose whether to make the most of it or not
Set up a global intellectual
discussion group
LESSON: other people will often
have better ideas than you
Interned at a charity
LESSON: brilliant, kind, lovely, thoughtful, creative people need support in getting things done
Watched England almost win a major football competition
LESSON: it's coming home, but not this time (also, spirit and heart matters more than tactics but less than strategy)
Started writing online
LESSON: how to balance consuming information and making use of it
Went to university
LESSON: if nothing else, Oxford University teaches its students how to justify any viewpoint, but lots of people leave without an ethical north star, which makes this really worrying
Co-founded Oxford's largest access organisation, UniReach
LESSON: how to bring people together, how to lead a team, and (sort of) how to code
Did really well in my exams (seriously, I'm still surprised)
LESSON: work really bloody hard for the goals you want to achieve in your life
Began working at Egon Zehnder
LESSON: focus on the big things, how to build a good culture and why it's important, and how psychology makes teams effective
Building Culture3
LESSON: how culture shapes technology, and more about how technology will shape us, plus how to hire people
Left school, voted likeliest to marry their job... and second funniest
LESSON: make sure that people don't pigeonhole you
I don't know what the future holds.
But I would love to chat about what it might look like.
My email is leo@thisdomain.
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