When I was in the Sixth Form and applying for drama degrees, my headmaster invited me in for a chat one day. He very much wanted to impress on me the folly of relying on the arts for a career. Little did he know at the time that I was doing so little work on…
It’s the time of year that without cultural cues like sweet sticky chocolately smells or repetitive music from (mostly) happy times in our childhood, we’d stay at home. But that would be derelicting our civic duty to shop and engage with our favourite brands downtown! So someone hires the chocolate peanut man and pays the…
Look, it’s only been twenty-five years we’ve had this thing, it takes time to understand how it works over longer time periods. I know that for some people the web is over, blogs are over, because FB is where everyone’s talking. And I do know a lot of people who seem to spend a lot…
I’m thinking about this a lot. When we moved to Guildford eighteen months ago, I would find myself gobsmacked at the zombie-ness of the Saturday shoppers – wandering the town centre looking for something, anything to fill the hole in the soul. Bloody Surrey! Bloody boomers with their early retirement and 10x property value increases….
Sorry. This is a bit of a filler to say that I’m intending to be writing here again more. I’ve been blogging over on Steemit the blockchain-based blogging platform where you get paid in cryptocurrency for writing, commenting and curating and I’ll still be over there, but because of the market-like nature of it, it…
The process for setting up events is a bit chicken and egg so you have to start somewhere. We only have six and a bit weeks so it will have to work pragmatically rather than most efficiently or elegantly. The main criterion is “Are You Outside London?” If you are and you’d like us to…
TL;DR – I’m going to open as much space as I can, all around the UK, before the General Election to talk about power and politics and us at a much deeper and more practical level than is available online. There’s a Loomio Group Facebook Group to join if you want to help make it…
I ran Blog Club in London today with an exercise from the most awesome Lynda Barry. If you want to play too, here’s her blog post with instructions and words from the fine woman herself. I’ve done it with groups a few times and it’s really good warm up for getting into the writing space…
If “collaboration” is the answer, what’s the question? For most people it’s “How do we get things done that are too big for one person alone”. OK but that sounds like any sort of organisation. I think for businesses and larger organisations it’s more like “How do we increase the productivity of ‘knowledge workers’?” Drucker…
So yeah, hate might be a bit strong but we’ve been talking this morning about titles for blog posts. You’ll remember that last week we fired off as many headlines as we could. Today we’ve talked about crafting them a bit more. My things are: It’s one of those things again that falls too quickly…