Do you have a core, motivating belief? Is it something that you can put into words? How open are you to the next moment? I’ve always been a great believer in randomness and serendipity. If you put your trust in the next moment, if you can open yourself to chance, precisely the right thing will […]
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Three ages of play: Doodles, poodles, apple strudels
Why is play often seen as harder to justify as we get older? Play is both a luxury activity and an essential one. Play sets the imagination free. This is captured perfectly in 2014 cinematic masterpiece The Lego Movie – the purest depiction I’ve seen of the joyous, light-speed leaps and bounds of the mind […]
#7songs2016: Of Mobience and Talking Heads
If you had to pick seven songs from this year or yesteryear that have meant the world to you in 2016, what would they be? The best music is timeless. And some of it is completely free. All music plays with time. You might want a song you love never to end. You might want […]
#7Songs2016 (1): The shadow of the Thin White Duke
If you had to pick seven songs from this year or yesteryear that have meant the world to you in 2016, what would they be? I so enjoyed the #7songs “challenge” last year that I thought I’d try my own twist on it this year. Hence #7songs2016. Let’s kick it off with a beautiful jazz […]
Why do you “do” social media?
What does social media mean to you? What does your use of social media say about you? If a tweet falls in a forest and no-one hears it, does it make a sound? Summertime and the tweeting is easy. For many of us in 2016, high summer brings not just thoughts of getting away from […]
Tall tweets: What is Twitter’s ‘thing’?
Twitter offers connection across all boundaries and beauty in brevity. So will the rumoured extension of tweet lengths spoil Twitter’s ‘thing’? And just what is Twitter’s ‘thing’ anyway? Are you ready for the era of the tall tweet? Coming this year, the rumoured increase in tweet lengths from 140 characters to perhaps as many as […]
#7songs: Time to lie down and be counted?
If you had to pick seven songs over seven days, what would they be? Music is all about where it takes you. Why not let it take you somewhere brand new? I recently shared seven songs that mean the world to me over seven days. I tweeted links to all seven, and have blogged about […]
What’s the first rule of Quiet Club?
How does silence make you feel? When did you last experience total silence? Would you pay for silence? Silence is hard to come by. And it is the easiest thing in the world to destroy. Silence is not for everyone. “Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature,” […]
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 […]
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