The Third Half is a Substack and podcast run by my friend Scott Hamilton, built around a simple tagline: "People. Planet. Progress."
What first pulled me in was the quality of the guests. Scott has an unusual ability to get senior people to talk about the things they normally keep to themselves.
The Trevor Hatton conversation about what happens when a long corporate career ends, and how the phone stops ringing once the job title disappears, is one of the most honest things I have heard a former Accenture and EY leader say out loud.
The Chris Brocklesby episode with the CTO of the British Heart Foundation goes somewhere similarly personal, with Brocklesby opening up about navigating serious health challenges while operating at exec level. These conversations have a quality of trust and space that you rarely get in a standard business podcast, and it is clear that the guests feel it too.
Other recent guests include Michelle Prance, Chief Executive of Mettle (NatWest's digital banking business), playwright April De Angelis, musician Tom Hingley and Swedish pianist Peter Sandberg, whose music has been streamed over 700 million times.
I have to say this last one was superb and my son really enjoyed it too.
That willingness to put a CTO and a pianist in the same editorial space, and make both conversations feel equally worthwhile, tells you everything about what Scott is building here.
Beyond the interviews there is a growing collection of written content strands including Blueprints, Between the Lines, Bad Ideas Club and The Wee Dram, each with its own flavour.
Scott describes his audience as "the fractional, the curious and the quietly restless," and that framing captures something real.
If your interests and identity extend well beyond your job title, and you want something to read that reflects that, The Third Half is your kind of publication. It is warm, it is thoughtful, it takes positions rather than hedging, and it treats every guest and every topic with genuine care.
Eight months in, the quality of what he is producing is superb for an independent publication, and I think it deserves a much bigger audience.
I love the fact he sees this as art. So do I, Scott...
Give it a look.