THE TAKE
I want to pause for a moment — not to look forward, but to look sideways. At you.
When I started Common Ground, I had a simple ambition: to find the space where different disciplines — law, marketing, reputation, technology, governance — stop talking past each other and start making sense together. I wasn’t sure anyone else was looking for that space, where I had a little professional experience and perspective to offer.
As it turns out, quite a few of you were.
We’ve just passed 3,000 subscribers on LinkedIn alone. And now, something new is growing. The Common Ground podcast is finding its feet — and its audience — across Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Amazon Music.
Thank you. Genuinely. Every subscriber, every listener, every person who forwarded this to a colleague or commented on an edition — you are the reason Common Ground exists.
But milestones are only useful if they make you stop and ask: what next? So I’m not going to tell you what I think the agenda should be. I’m asking you.
THE SIGNAL
THE QUESTION TO YOU
Which topic area interests you the most? Where should I point my next few articles / podcasts?
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