Running a Premortem

In the past, running a Premortem has been the single most helpful exercise I’ve found for dealing with complex, risky projects. This is the core idea, but there’s a little more to it. I’m not joking when I say that a premortem refocused the hardest death-march I’ve been on, and another premortem was a key […]

Startups

I’m currently CTO at Big Health/Sleepio, building digital medicine. Sleepio’s astonishing effectiveness has been shown in a randomized, placebo-controlled peer-reviewed trial (covered by The Lancet), and delivers it all through The Prof’s warm, Scottish brogue. Before that, I co-founded Memrise.com with Grandmaster of Memory Ed Cooke in 2008. Memrise blends the art and science of memory to power incredibly effective, social and […]