I think there are a few reasons why it’s important I wrote about my situation this morning and that I keep doing so as things shift and change, not just leap to “and suddenly it all turned round and I stand before you, a glowing success”. If I’d jumped from landing in California to pootling…
I lost my ability to restrain pen and tongue on twitter this morning. I apologize to anyone upset by it. I hate being in this position. I’m embarrassed, ashamed, tired, disappointed, bored, desperately bored with being the nice guy who everyone respects and admires but who is puzzlingly incapable of generating regular revenue and looking…
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Here’s a few things I’ve learned from my Amtrak travels… Passes There are 3 USA Rail Passes. The adult prices are $389 for 8 segments in 15 days, $579 for 12 segments in 30 days or $749 for 18 segments in 45 days. I’ve now done two coast-to-coast trips this way. On the first trip…
The conception, development and execution of the journey were all carried out in the same way. I thought about things, i wrote about them, I wove the responses to my writing together with person-to-person conversations I had into decisions about which way to go next. That. Repeated over and over. Before the trip, I spoke…
I’ve been back for a week and I’ve noticed a struggle in me between continuing to be as I was when I was away and how I’m accustomed to .being now that I’m back in a familiar environment. Being in a familiar environment, “my” bits of London, means I don’t have to think as much,…
photo: kittygutz When I was travelling, I got into the habit of taking my ukulele out with me most days (actually this started happening much more during SXSW when Sarah, Dan and Phil encouraged early morning crooning in the car while heading downtown). Not only did simply having an instrument in my hand prove to…
Tara Hunt talks about the honesty behind the honesty of that TEDx talk: “I was scared to give it. I’m still scared every time I send it to someone. I’m not talking about my success or all of the awesome things I’ve accomplished in that talk. I’m talking about struggling, failing, not knowing where I’m…
Tara Hunt talks about the honesty behind the honesty of that TEDx talk: “I was scared to give it. I’m still scared every time I send it to someone. I’m not talking about my success or all of the awesome things I’ve accomplished in that talk. I’m talking about struggling, failing, not knowing where I’m…
A couple of things in my stream this morning about using newly liberated data: Hadley pointing to Jo Ivens’s piece “Open data: we can’t just rely on developers” for demsoc.org “I am a policy type who cares about social justice and believes that the voluntary and social enterprise sectors can have a central role in…