We’ll be doing the next in-person Living Culture Coffee Morning at Essex Hall this Friday, 5th from 10am. You should come if you’re around. I just realised when I sat down that yesterday’s post wasn’t published. There’s an extra publishing step that I’m somehow tricking myself into thinking doesn’t exist (is a way of saying…
I think I may have just accidentally deleted a draft post that I wrote last week, thinking that it had already been published. Oh well, we’ll never know now! I’m working with an ADHD coach at the moment and it’s really helping. One great insight of the last week or so is that the same…
I went to a day conference on Saturday, called “Resisting Big Tech Empires” run by Global Justice Now at the London South Bank University. I came away remembering that there are an awful lot of people who want to tell other people what to think, what to do and what they’re allowed to say. That…
I’m getting back to work, but for that to be really true, I really need to be blogging regularly. So here we go. Someone asked me the other day, what I’d do differently if we got to have a Centre for Creative Collaboration again. The question’s been rolling round in me ever since. My simple/simplistic…
An old-fashioned podcast in the “voicemail while walking to the station” tradition. For those not aware, young people, on their Easter holidays from school, have been getting together in an unorganised way, that is to say, not for any reason that is legible to people over about 25 (unless those people do a tiny bit…
Two insights into how agent-assisted work feels in my feeds this week: Matt Jones writing in the frame of how the new technology is affecting our relationship to time (as new tech always seems to have done). I don’t know whether I’m rationalising this after the fact (probably) but I did feel a little unease…
We’ve been having coffee (and often cake and biscuits) on the first Friday of every month at Essex Hall under the heading of “Living Culture Coffee Mornings” for just over a year now. It works brilliantly for some people, not so well for others. And, of course, there are people born every day who haven’t…
A wordpress.com notification that the site I made 16 years ago has finally made 100 views. Actually that’s not quite accurate, this is the wordpress.com version of the site that I made to house the posterous archive after that went kaput. So this is a) newer than 16 years; and b) not really a site…
We’ve had the Gregorian version, the Lunar version, the meteorological first day of spring and in a couple of weeks we’ll have the astrological reboot at the equinox. But I haven’t written here (or very much anywhere else) since December 3rd 2025. That’s not a particularly long hiatus as this blog goes, but I feel…
I’ve got something to tell you. It’ll probably be a surprise, but I think it’s a good surprise… That’s pretty much the line I used when I broke the news to the rest of my family, a few months ago, that I’m going to be a dad again. Yeah. So anyway, we’re now into week…