A long-distance train journey is a great opportunity for meditation. Especially when you find yourself without a phone signal most of the way and unable to connect to a carrier that will give you data at all. So after waking at Spokane (where a drunk guy was getting thrown off the train) and managing to…
Ann and Kevin were the second couple I stayed with who I'd never met before. But most bizarrely, they, like Philip and Tania in SF were an Anglo-American couple. What are the chances? I land in two couple's lives randomly and unexpectedly and both the guys are English. And, I just realised as I was…
Saturday was my first full train day. I was on board for just about 24 hours. Having snoozed for a couple of hours at a time and checked in on Foursquare when I could I got up just north of Redding and had a look around. Went up to the observation car and sat and…
Friday was my last day in the Bay Area. Briefly after breakfast, I managed to IM with my daughter (who was just about to have her tea) – that felt good, to be able to just chat for a bit, hear what's going on for her, let her know that I'm OK and having a…
I spent Thursday mostly in the conference room at US Venture Partners (USVP) in Menlo Park. We were the guests of Paul Matteucci who had invited a bunch of people in to watch the live stream from TED which was going on down in Long Beach. It was my best experience of a TED live…
So the tagline for this trip has been "What happens when I give up control and ask for help?" I've been banging my head for the last couple of days against my desire to go to Long Beach and hang out again on The Queen Mary with the very cool people of the BIL conference….
OK I'm still in Half Moon Bay but tonight I'm writing at 11.30pm when I'm going to bed, in an attempt to put away stuff that otherwise would wake me at 3 🙂 It seems to me this might be a good regular practice – to write any issues down before I go to bed…
I knew that I didn't want my first night to be with friends. I wanted to be able to do what I did, which was to sit in my room for a bit and then drop off to sleep. I dropped off to sleep a little earlier than I'd intended, but it's not the end…
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I'm in Half Moon Bay with the Scobles. It's 3.30am and I can't sleep right now, partly because my body still thinks its mid-morning but also because I'm trying to think through what to do next. And that's no good, that sounds suspiciously like I'm in control. So I'm asking for help. I would like…