I’ve been thinking a lot about identity lately. What people think of you. What reputation means, particularly in connected environments. What is the balance between making and talking? What’s the ideal ratio of creating and sharing versus keeping your work to yourself? What “counts” as “evidence” (you can read all about my thoughts in this post). How can we distill the totality of ourselves into a tagline? Writing that aforementioned post I re-read one of my favourite pieces

I often talk about, as an intro to my Creativity presentations, the fact that a lot of people who meet me for the first time ask, “Are you an artist?” At first I apologetically replied “no”, despite the fact they probably caught me in the act of sketching in public. (my new response is “aren’t we all?”). Another common one I get is, “you must be in the fashion industry”, perhaps because I am usually a tad overdressed or whimsically dressed and always in black. Identity in the