We're into the final hours of the indiegogo campaign and I'm preparing to fly to San Francisco tomorrow morning.  In the comments of a previous post, Rob Mosley said: "I'm still making my mind up whether to contribute. Partially that's because I'm not sure I'll enjoy the content that much… I mean, I know it…

This badge is an aide-mémoire – it reminds me both that I am here (right now) and what I'm here to do.  In the excitement of preparing for the trip and talking about it, answering questions and asking for help to just get over to San Francisco tomorrow, something has become a little obscured. I believe…

I booked my flights today and everything suddenly became much more real… In doing so I had to choose where I was going to begin and end, so it's SF to NYC I also started talking to people about the first few days on the west coast and meeting up. Plus… I need more sleep…

I think, both for my own peace of mind and to avoid that pained look when people ask, today's the day to book my flights. Here's my thinking, based on looking at Virgin Atlantic's site which (unusually) is quite cool with the concept that people might not fly back from the city they fly to:…

I *was* very tired last night after I wrote. I was in bed by midnight and I slept until 10am this morning although I had a little wake-up-with-busy-head session for an hour or so around 6am. I was reminded that I need to remember to take the big but difficult actions that I know will…

One of the great things about putting this work in front of a wider audience is that people are engaging with it who don't already know me, like me,  understand what I'm doing, get the way that I work.  That means I have to keep explaining it from different perspectives and not only does that…

Yesterday, Emma (@hubmum) asked "is this a charity thing or fund my holiday?"  today the ever-charming Milo (@nero) said "Social media moron redux http://t.co/tH7OOfT Is this a spoof? The guy just wants you to pay for his holiday… What am I missing?" I know that if someone's prepared to call me a moron, at least I'm doing something…

So today is the first day of the week before I leave for the US. This time next week, I'll be on Pacific Time and though it'll feel like 11 it'll actually still only be 2pm  Blimey! I'm worn out tonight and going to bed very soon, but I've decided I need to be keeping…

I'm in the process of asking for donations to help fund the trip – I'm going to write about the process some more today, but basically yesterday I started systematically asking twitter friends to make a donation and spread the word.  After I'd gone to bed last night, Drew Buddie tweeted a link to the…

This picture reminds me to just keep taking the next right step. By far the most frequently-asked question of me at the moment is “How is the planning going?”  I had a bit of deja vu writing that sentence and thought I must have written about it last year, but I’ve just had a look…