About
The mandate
Things That Make Me Stop Walking is your quiet companion, accompanying you on your long evening walks to help you process, reflect and decompress, as you pursue your goals to leave a lasting legacy.
There’s a particular emphasis on the role of Art & Culture in helping us achieve and sustain both real world success and refined character; not through theory, but through practical application peppered with a sense of wonder.
We look at how taste becomes a legitimate form of judgement, and explore culture as a critical infrastructure enhancing and shaping our lives.
Ultimately, we explore to inspire and excite us, mostly at the realm of possibilities.
The Pillars
Discovery
Turning emotion, intuition, and subtle experiences into language that reveals new ways of seeing and being.
Pursuit
Defining and applying how people, values, and systems transform through awareness, choice, and redefinition.
Legacy
The mediums which play an active role in the pursuits of value creation and succession.
What’s in a name?
The Thing that made me stop walking
Does the name Things that make me stop walking sound bizarre, long winded, grammatically annoying?
One sunny day I was walking down a London road with my colleague, and we came across a florist. Anyone who knows me knows I have the tendency to stop in my tracks to capture a moment (much to their dismay). And this moment was no different. I spotted the sunlight hitting these blooms and asked ‘Neil, do you mind if we stop for a second so I can take a picture?'
Super simple serendipity.
Londoner | Lover | Marketer
| Full time aesthete
I’m British Pakistani, born and raised in London where I still reside. I’ve worked in Marketing & Communications for 10 years across many industries.
Everything else we can share along the way.
Anam x
Welcome to slow blogging
This is a space shaped by intention. I do not post for the sake of frequency or reach. If a story does not feel worth telling, or an image cannot capture what I truly saw or felt, it will remain unseen. You may find the rhythm of posts here to be occasional rather than constant - once, maybe twice, a month. That is by design. In this corner of the internet, quality and authenticity prevail over quantity or momentum. Welcome x