On Experience

What if the most important lesson a doctor learns is that they can't heal people? After fifty years in healthcare, Dr Patterson Stark reached a conclusion that completely changed the way he practised medicine. It wasn't a new treatment or a breakthrough discovery. It was a shift in how he understood his own role. In this conversation, we explore how a life-threatening cancer diagnosis transformed...

Industrial designer Philippe Guichard has spent more than thirty years designing products, businesses and experiences. But this conversation isn't really about design, it’s about perception. And, how over time, experience changes what we notice. In this conversation, Philippe reflects on the shift from ego to service, how culture shapes design, why observation comes before intervention, and how ex...

A few days after our first conversation, Mark Molony got back in touch with a simple message: “I’ve had some more thoughts.” So we reconvened to continue exploring a deceptively simple question: What is experience? What followed opened up a deeper conversation about wisdom, memory, beginner’s mind, and why some of the most experienced people are also the most willing to say: “I don’t know.” We exp...

In this conversation, mindfulness teacher Mark Molony and I explore a deceptively simple question: How does experience shape the way we see situations? What began as a discussion about mindfulness quickly became something deeper: Why experienced practitioners often slow down rather than speed up How expertise can quietly harden into an assumption The difference between reaction and awareness And w...

This is a recorded conversation with Michael Henderson ( https://www.culturesatwork.com/ ), a corporate anthropologist who has spent over 30 years observing organisational culture, human behaviour, and the patterns that shape how people work together. Rather than focusing on frameworks or solutions, this conversation explores something more fundamental: how experience shapes what we notice… how it...

Recently, I realised a flaw in the way I work. I spend too much time alone thinking about things and not enough in conversation with other people. This is a problem because a lot of my good ideas come from interacting with others. They either say something interesting or I surprise myself by what I say. That’s part of what led to On Experience . After years of making videos about expertise, author...