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 […]
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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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The Magic Runners
What is the Magic Run? Who are the Magic Runners? We’ll come to the first question in a moment. But let’s answer the second question first. The Magic RunnersFor the purposes of this post, the Magic Runners are a selection of excellent people who are currently pushing themselves past the parameters of anything they’ve done […]
purestformofexpression: cyclefour10: …. COFFEEEEEEE The endless, hypnotic beauty of coffee…
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