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Housekeeping Corner Discount Club is live!
Yep, I’ve joined forces with my partner brands to create HKC Discount Club, offering listeners and readers exclusive discounts on the best brands out…
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Win a mentoring course worth £1000
A special competition, exclusively for paid subscribers.
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February 2024

Looking Sideways Listener/Reader Survey
A year or so after I turned on paid subs, tell me what you like about Looking Sideways, and what you'd like to see more of.
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The Ethics of Paying Creatives and Contributors: Five Things We Learned - Redux
Republishing an archive post on the morals and ethics of unpaid labour
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January 2024

4 Things I've Learned About Creative Failure
Lessons learned from a lifetime of making things with varying degrees of success.
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December 2023

The Best Books I Read In 2023
Every year, like the completist geek I am, I keep a record of every book I read. Here are the five I enjoyed the most in 2023.
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Open Thread: Highlights of 2023
Let’s share our highlights of 2023. Here are a few of mine: Hanging out with my best pal Peg, always the most joyful part of my day. Watching aw…
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September 2023

4 Things I've Learned From Taking on Two Big Creative Projects
Lessons learned from a summer of stretching myself creatively and practically.
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Thomas Campbell: Five Things We Learned
Five creative lessons from my conversation with artist and auteur Thomas Campbell.

August 2023

Open Thread: What's the best advice you've ever received?
Looking Sideways is proudly ad-free and reader and listener supported. Thanks to all my paid subscribers, who help keep the podcast and newslett…
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Db x Looking Sideways Fund: Summer 2023 Update!
Catch up with what happened after Jen, Antoine and Eloise won our inaugural creative grant.

July 2023

Huck: Colour Collective Riders Are Reclaiming The Peaks
This week, I'm reposting an article I wrote for Huck Magazine about the connection between the original Kinder Trespass and the important work of modern…
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