Lessons I Wish I'd Known To Begin With

By Gareth I. Jones

Weekly posts covering all aspects of entrepreneurship, community building, systems change and responsible business.

After ten years of making lots of mistakes I've decided to share them in the hope that others can avoid some of them.

Previous issues

What if I Fail?

#33 Aug 7, 2022

Performing a Premortem

#32 Jul 31, 2022

It Won’t Always Be Great

#31 Jul 24, 2022

#30

Jul 17, 2022

Taking Advice – Taking advice can be a trickier exercise than you might think, and like with everything you can impro
#29

Jul 10, 2022

Never Being Ready – What does it mean to feel ready?
#28

Jul 3, 2022

Getting Out Alive – There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing something you’ve started thriving in your absence.
#27

Jun 26, 2022

Knowing Where to Start – A very common first question when meeting founders is “where do I begin”. Here’s how.
#26

Jun 19, 2022

Picking Opportunities – When we’re identifying the right career or role for us, we often look at pay as being the most import
#25

Jun 12, 2022

Stick To The Plan – Sometimes you have to know when to stick at it and not give up.
#24

Jun 5, 2022

Just Wing It – We often think of people who wing it as being chancers and blaggers, but maybe they’re a more realist
#23

May 29, 2022

Winning At Awards – Awards can be an incredibly useful way to get exposure, but there are pitfalls to consider.
#22

May 22, 2022

The New Digital Nomads – Over the last few years the trend of digital nomads has been a hot topic for urban planners - but the
#21

May 15, 2022

Make Yourself Redundant – Your most important job is to make sure you don’t have a job, and that’s the best measure of success
#20

May 8, 2022

Loving Problems, Breaking Up With Ideas – It feels like our culture celebrates good ideas more than great execution, but that’s the fixed minds
#19

May 1, 2022

The Privilege Behind Picking the Right Path – There seem to be two people in this world right now: people who think there are too many opportunitie
#18

Apr 24, 2022

Abandon Old Routines To Change Your World – Every year I try to give up something quite challenging for lent. It isn’t for religious reasons, but
#17

Apr 17, 2022

It’s True, It’s Not What You Know – It’s an old cliché, and it’s deeply embedded into our societal inequality, but it doesn’t have to be
#16

Apr 10, 2022

Can A Building Have A Soul? – Why does it matter? Can we build a soul?
#15

Apr 3, 2022

Wework Was The Best and Worst Thing to Happen to Coworking – Without Wework the coworking industry would still have a big brand building job on its hands. Now it
#14

Mar 27, 2022

Past Decisions Don't Have To Haunt You – It’s very important to us to appear to be consistent and reasonable folks, but this is your brain tri

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