Category: inspiration
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Google Firestarters 5 Visualised
It can't have been easy for the guys at Scriberia to visualise Cory Doctorow's amazing talk at last weeks Firestarters event. But chief scribe Dan has done a fantastic job at committing to illustration a talk crammed with great metaphors and delivered at some pace. So, as a follow up to the write ups of the event,…
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Google Firestarters 5: Cory Doctorow – The Event
Well. I can honestly say that it's taken me a good few days to digest Cory Doctorow's amazing talk at our fifth Firestarters event last Wednesday. And I'm still ruminating on it. Cory's talk, billed as 'The Coming War On General Computation' concerned what he sees as the gross inadequacies inherent in our regulatory and…
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Google Firestarters 5: Cory Doctorow
So, exciting news. For the fifth in the series of Google Firestarters events for planners and digital media folk we are lucky enough to have Cory Doctorow, the renowned science fiction novelist, journalist, technology activist, and co-editor of Boing Boing. Given the increasing ubiquity of digital technologies, their integration into just about every device, and…
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‘Drama Is Anticipation Mingled With Uncertainty’
There's a lot to take from this wonderful TED talk by the multi-oscar winning writer and director Andrew Stanton, who was Pixar's ninth employee and whose credits include Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo and WALL-E. It made me think about the relationship between technology and creativity. One of the many interesting stories in the…
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An Exit Is Not Happiness
Thanks to Liz Danzico for pointing at designer Tony Chu's response to an answer posted on Quora by Mike Sellers explaining some common blind spots for first time entrepreneurs. Mike's answers in bold, Tony's response in italics. An idea is not a design, but it is an invitation to a journey. A design is not a…
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Good For Nothing: Occupy Blue Monday
Occupy Blue Monday Good for Nothing Film from Good for Nothing on Vimeo. The smart folk at The Pipeline Project (Dan, Tom, Tom and Anouk) have been running Good for Nothing weekenders now for just over a year. They describe them as creative, collaboration gigs that "bring together a large diverse group of talented people to…
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#lookupmore
I'm loving Instagram's weekend hashtag project. It's a simple but rather lovely curation of Instagrams around weekly themes that have included stairs, reflections, corners and shadows. Ages ago, I started hashtagging a few pictures that I took with #lookupmore. It's a simple thing really. Rushing about every day, I think it's easy to only look at…
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Imbalances
Frederik linked to this short video of Sir Ken Robinson. It's not a new talk but a section of his session at the RSA about changing education paradigms. Specifically the bit in which he talks about divergent thinking (it's not brilliantly shot but it gets the point across and you can also watch a longer RSA animate of…
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Observations From Two Years In The Wild
It's been nigh on two years since I made the leap from 20 years in corporate world to making a living for myself with little more than my MacBook Pro, what I know and who I know. It's been simultaneously challenging and exhilarating, but I'm fortunate in that it has grown into something bigger and filled…