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 […]
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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 […]
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What makes Twitter Twitter?
I love Twitter. Maybe you do too. If you use Twitter (whether you love it or hate it), what is that makes Twitter, well, Twitter for you? And what would you do if what made Twitter Twitter for you were to change? The essential oddities of Twitter useThe connectivity, the conversations, and the creativity forced […]
‘My every incarceration’: From Iggy Pop to Buddhism in one wonderful misreading
How does one skip from Iggy Pop’s “colourful” past to an enlightening discussion of Buddhism in one simple move? One of the things I love most about social media is the potential for the most fascinating and enriching of discussions to come out of left field. Unlike in the so-called real world, such conversations can […]
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