Simon Oliver

<p>The first ever episode of Serendipity Soup - the antidote to celebrity success podcasts!</p><br><p>This one is with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/soliver/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Simon Oliver</a>, Digital Play Discovery Lead at Lego's Creative Play Lab, who talks about the highs and lows of his work in the video games industry, his love of duck-billed platypuses and why 'Jodorowsky's Dune' contains a great message for striving creatives and anyone else who needs to balance vision with practicality.</p><br><p>There is some discussion of depression in the last 10 minutes or so of this podcast, which I thought I should mention just in case that's not what you want to hear about right now. If you've been affected by depression, or any other mental illness, then the MIND website - <a href="https://www.mind.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Home | Mind, the mental health charity - help for mental health problems</a> - is a good source of advice and support as is your local GP.</p><br><p>And finally, here are a few links to some of Simon's many esoteric references:</p><p><a href="https://brickish.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UK club for adult fans of Lego</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?language=en " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sir Ken Robinson – Do Schools Kill Creativity? </a></p><p><a href="http://www.tomato.co.uk/ " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tomato</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Barley " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nathan Barley</a></p><p><a href=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngmoco" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ngmoco</a></p><p>Rolando at <a href="http://www.handcircus.com/rolando/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HandCircus</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolando_(video_game)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> </p><p><a href="http://www.handcircus.com/okabu/ " rel=