Not well thought through, but rattled off after a good night’s sleep – fill in the gaps and polish up for me, would you? I’m noting that one issue is political parties’ separation from culture which means they’re unconsciously driven by cultural trends rather than being on top of them. Long words made shorter: this…
When the exit poll came in, I was just thinking of writing something here about the likelihood of a shock election result, given the filter bubble/echo chamber effects in social media. I didn’t know what the shock would be, but it seemed to me that my feed was so strongly in tune with what I…
I’m sitting here in my living room, listening to Louis Prima, recorded in 1956, somehow ending up on my phone and being played through my phone’s network connection to my television set. I’m typing on a computer that’s not much larger than an A4 pad of paper and you’re reading this wherever, however, whenever you…
I’m writing a final report on the work I just did in Sittingbourne, opening and running a pop-up shop and co-working space in the High Street there as part of the EU-funded ReCreate project. This is mostly a request for help from people who were familiar with or directly involved in the project, but I’m…
I’ve been writing a thing about Creative Collaboration – it’s a subject I’ve spoken about a lot and I often assert that all creative work is dependent on more than one person and that nobody does amazing creative work on their own – we just have a habit of ascribing genius to individuals because, well,…
We’re going to bring the Tuttle format to Sittingbourne. I’m running a pop-up shop/co-working project here at 34 High Street (known as Workshop34) for the next few months and so I want a regular get together of creative minds in conversation. Tuttle in London has been running every Friday since February 2008, it’s a place for…
OK, here’s a little puzzle for you now that the evenings are drawing in: Show, on a map, those areas of London from which, at street level, you can clearly see both the Vauxhall Tower and The Shard. Entries by Christmas please.
I spoke yesterday at the Workplace Trends conference in London. The overall theme was Designing for Inclusion. Neil Usher (a confirmed, but lately absent, tuttler) got together a dozen fine people to present our thoughts in pecha kucha style (20 slides each, 20 seconds per slide). Under the stressful bondage of the format, I can’t…
When #tuttle was attracting a crowd of about 80 people every week at the ICA, the old-school networking entrepreneurs came a-sniffing. “How can you do this?” they asked. “You’re supposed to keep people out, that’s how you make people want to join, then when you’ve created sufficient demand, people will be eager to pay to…
I just caught myself thinking that I might settle down with a nice cup of tea and watch the telly. This isn’t quite as bad as it once might have been. I wouldn’t actually have been watching a broadcast on BBC1 or anything like that. I’d have been choosing from something on Netflix. Or perhaps…