What I’m doing

the lichen and moss in king’s cross Originally posted on Lloyd’s posterous

What work is being done here? How much have I done? Is that enough? Is the work good enough? Does it have any value? Originally posted on Lloyd’s posterous

I’ve been working in a variety of ways at the Centre for Creative Collaboration for more than a year now.  My trip to America gave me an opportunity to reflect on what I’ve learned with others in the course of that year.  Whenever I told people about the Centre, they were very interested in what…

I asked on twitter “What is the purpose of knowing what the purpose is?” and then I went and got some lunch… Martyn Clark said: “Creating cool stuff. Oh. That’s mine. Hmm. The purpose of the purpose IS the purpose. By definition. Fractal.”   Nick Holder said: “In order to feel purposeful?”   Michael Lewkowitz…

I was asked, before, during and after, “why not just do this using couchsurfing.org?  It’s set up for what you’re doing and you’d meet new and interesting people.” Well, for one, I *did* meet new and interesting people anyway but this wasn’t so much what I was after.  i really wanted to experience travelling through…

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…

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,…