Disconnecting your identity from your job with Tom Creighton, designer, podcaster and builder of cool things

Ways We Work

This episode I'm talking to Tom Creighton, he's currently a design lead at Delphia, a data-focused startup based out of Toronto. He previously made other cool things at companies like Wealthsimple and Shopify. He's passionate about growing the creative community through a variety of means, like through his two podcasts Framework, a podcast about the process of building and bringing a product to market and The Redesign, which is a fun podcast where he and a friend redesign everyday items with usually the end result being a poorly designed version of the original thing - Tom wouldn't mind me saying that. He also spends a good amount of his time speaking and mentoring others in the design community. In our chat we cover decision making, how to make good decisions and the process involved in that, disconnecting your identity from your role, the importance of communication amongst teams, the value of experiments and creating boundaries in both your work and side projects and Tom shares how deciding to work from home was the best the decision for his own work-life balance. This was a fun conversation and Tom has a ton of really thoughtful insights around all of these topics from his own personal experience.

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1. Disconnecting your identity from your job with Tom Creighton, designer, podcaster and builder of cool things (00:00:00)

2. Decision Making (00:03:32)

3. "I'm not the job" (00:10:22)

4. Podcasting and the value of experimenting (00:19:28)

5. Setting intentions and defining success for your creative endeavours (00:26:12)

6. Working from home and work-life balance (00:29:03)