Today, 20th March, is World Storytelling Day. So, today I’m thinking about global stories.

When we put together technical stories, there are thousands of big and small decisions that we have to make along the way.

Making such decisions can be agonising, and can seriously slow us down.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Allow me to introduce you to: the Three Post-it Exercise.

I’ve only ever had two ‘eureka’ moments in my life. The first involved unwittingly growing crystals on a microscope slide which I’d left lying around the x-ray lab untidied for nine months.

The second was when, having signed up to perform science stand-up comedy, I panic-googled ‘how to tell a story’.