Episode 31 · · 1:48:09

Nostalgia, Legacy, and Finding What’s Next with Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke shares what excites him lately, sparking memories of his early photography career and frequent trips to Schaffhausen. His pivot from art school and darkroom work into technical sales, and lessons about good selling as an art of solving real problems. The discussion moves to creative storytelling on the web, focus and distraction habits, challenges with open-plan offices, and how he’s built a work life around late-night rhythms and self-managed attention. Clarke also reflects on family history, his father’s suicide and trauma, changing views on mental health and heredity, and a desire to do more consequential political or social work while relearning how to create for pleasure.

Topics

  1. 0:00 Introduction
  2. 1:17 Rebuilding The Sinar Camera
  3. 8:28 Pre Digital Car Shoots
  4. 14:28 Sales Lessons That Stick
  5. 27:15 Storytelling On The Web
  6. 37:10 Writing Needs Silence
  7. 48:45 Designing Your Rhythm with ADHD
  8. 1:08:01 Turning 60 Reflections
  9. 1:12:36 Mr Rogers Envy
  10. 1:17:49 Providing vs Purpose
  11. 1:25:30 Objects as Memory Anchors
  12. 1:40:43 Music Picks and Billy Bragg
  13. 1:45:42 Where to Follow

About Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke

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