Tune out, turn off, drop out. How tough do you find it to switch off from the myriad modes of communication, distraction, delight and infuriation that our magnificent modern world has to offer? Do you suffer from a terminal fear of missing out (FOMO)? Why do you think that might be? My ever-eloquent friend Heather […]
Author: Michael Carty
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May today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
Write with purpose, expecting nothing in return
What’s the best medium for self-expression for you? If you’re of the blogging persuasion, what do you think makes for compelling, authentic writing? I had a highly enjoyable Twitter chat on these topics with US blogger and outstanding gent Christopher De Mers recently. Christopher has written a post entitled Selfies, which identifies four key qualities […]
Monty Python’s Bicycle Repairman sketch: It was 45 years ago today
Bicycle Repair Man’s superhero origin story took place on the first ever day of filming for Monty Python’s Flying Circus, with cameras starting to roll on Tuesday 8 July 1969!
The flash in the Beatles biographer’s eye
The game is afoot. A new piece of the puzzle is discovered. It was my good fortune to attend the ‘premiere’ screening of the 50th anniversary souped-up, “very clean” re-release of the Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night at the BFI in London on Thursday (3 July 2014). I also got to see one truly […]
My Social Media Half-Year Honours List 2014
How has the first half of 2014 been for you? Who has made a real difference to your year? Who has helped you this year, whether by what they do, what they say, or just by being there/being themselves? It’s scarcely credible, but 2014 is nearly half gone. To date, 2014 has been rather an […]
Smile Again
Is what you should be doing right now the opposite of what you think you should be doing? The three most striking, beautiful things I’ve read this past week have each posed this question in their own very different ways. Here they are in the order in which I came to them. Firstly, it was […]
The power of not saying what you want to hear
How much value should apparent affability have when it comes to identifying leaders and defining great leadership? Why do UK politicians feel a need to be “laddish and cool”? Why should we put any credence whatsoever in leaders who try “doing that ‘down with the kids’ thing”? In an excellent piece for the Guardian today […]
The true revolutionary duty of a writer is to write well. Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1927-2014 (via echo5charlie)
What’s the least I can do?
What’s the least I can do? The title of this post isn’t intended as a call to down arms and embrace laziness (but if you choose to interpret it as such, I salute you). What I want to look at here is achieving maximum effect from minimum effort. To quote Rick Rubin: “There’s a tremendous […]
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