Author Archives: Jessica Furseth

BL Magazine, Sept-Oct 2018. Original article p44-46.  On the health impact of business trips, and how employers need to take more responsibility To have the life of a business hotshot, putting in a couple of hours for meetings before lounging at the pool for the rest of the day – nice work if you canContinue reading “A trip too far?”

OnOffice Magazine cover story, August 2018. Original article (PDF). Station to Station: How Crossrail is changing London’s neighbourhoods Any new building will change the face of a block. If the structure is significant enough it can even change an entire neighbourhood, like how the Shard propelled the entire London Bridge area into becoming a glitzyContinue reading “Down the line: How Crossrail is changing London’s neighbourhoods”

Published in Lionheart Magazine (Issue 9: Land, Water and Air) in April 2018 Strange birds Wild parrots don’t belong in London but still, they are everywhere. I always find it a little jarring to see one – the shocking green and red typical of a parakeet is starkly out of place. It’s like we instinctivelyContinue reading “Strange birds”

Published in Lionheart Magazine #8, the Pattern & Colour issue, September 2017. On synchronicity Reality has one advantage over fiction: real life events can be wildly improbable. When you’re making things up they have to be believable, but reality makes no such promises: anything can happen. It was the author John Irving who said this,Continue reading “On synchronicity”

FusionWire, 2016.  London’s challenger banks are the envy of New York fintech New York has no shortage of impressive fintech startups, but when it comes to challenger banks, everyone is looking to London.   New York fintech holds its own against any other startup scene, no doubt about it – but even New Yorkers willContinue reading “London’s challenger banks are the envy of New York fintech”

Aquila Magazine for children, July/August 2017 (PDF) Buckminster Fuller‘s Spaceship Earth Buckminster Fuller wanted to bring humanity closer to utopia – a perfect place where everyone has what they need – and he believed that technology was how we’d get there. Fuller’s dream was certainly ambitious but “Bucky” got closer than most, in part becauseContinue reading “Buckminster Fuller’s Spaceship Earth”

What does future leadership look like? BL Magazine, July 2017 (p57-59)

Lionheart Magazine, February 2017. Just talking about the weather “It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.” (Samuel Johnson) White sunshine isContinue reading “Just talking about the weather”

FusionWire, December 2016.  Brixton Pound: How fintech boosts the local currency agenda The notes are eye-catching, but South London local currency Brixton Pound is most commonly traded in the form of text messages. We sat down with B£ Communications Manager Marta Owczarek to talk about how technology is furthering the local currency cause. The BrixtonContinue reading “Brixton Pound: How fintech boosts the local currency agenda”

Aquila Magazine for children, November 2016.  Ada and Abbie: The Difference Engines Engineer Abbie Hutty’s job is to build a vehicle that will be sent into space to look for life on Mars. Things have changed a lot since Ada Lovelace became the first computer programmer 200 years ago, in a time when women weren’tContinue reading “Ada and Abbie: The Difference Engines”