Category: inspiration
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Driving By Looking In The Rear-View Mirror
It's predictions time of year again. And like most things there's already the good and the not so good. I was rather taken with this comment from Seth Godin on a post by Fred Wilson about a talk by Forrester CEO, George Colony at last week's Le Web conference. Colony talked about the 'death of the web' and how 'social' is…
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Peak Stuff
There was a fascinating piece in The Guardian recently suggesting that 2001 may turn out to be the year that the UK reached 'peak stuff' – the turning point at which, after years of steady increase, the consumption of 'stuff' (the total weight of everything we use) reached it's peak and actually began to decline. The…
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Sound And Vision
"Sound" from SoundCloud on Vimeo. Lovely little film for Soundcloud and a lovely little story from VC Fred Wilson about how founder Alex Ljung pitched him for funding several times before he was successful: "…He showed me one slide. It had various media types (photos, videos, long form text, short form text) and underneath each…
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On Anxiety
This weekend I spent a bit of time with Andrew Zuckerman's work and (courtesy of Maria Popova) listened to this talk he gave at this year's 99% conference which contains a series of fantastic insights into his view on the creative process, wonderfully illustrated by soundbites from his work, most notably the Wisdom and Music projects.…
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Never Ending Stories
I read this Frog Design piece a while back and it's stuck in my mind ever since. It's an interview with artist Jonathan Harris (he of We Feel Fine fame) about his (not yet live) new project that is about encouraging people to tell long-form stories (or integrated memories) using photos, videos, timelines, sound maps, and…
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What If?
Johnny (ever the collector and curator of interesting points of view) points at a post from Tim Kastelle that draws an interesting point from Anything You Want, the book on entrepreneurship by CDBaby founder Derek Sivers. The book tells the story of how a voice coach that Sivers had when he was in a band…
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Creative Futures
I agree with the sentiment expressed in this post that it's a nonsense to suggest that The Wilderness Downtown shouldn't be eligible to compete for a lion at Cannes (it ended up taking home a Cyber Grand Prix). I put out a tweet saying as much, which prompted a reply from Nick pointing me at…
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Sunday Sermon
Ken Robinson on Passion from The School of Life on Vimeo. I saw Sir Ken Robinson talk about this in person a couple of years ago and it was one of the best talks I've ever been to. Sir Ken believes that everyone is born with tremendous capacities, yet somehow we often lose touch with…
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No End To The Magic
I've been reading Seth Godin's blog for years and for all that time it has never been less than an astute, insightful and intelligent read. But for once I think he's got it completely wrong. In today's post ('An End Of Magic') he references the old Arthur C Clarke quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is…
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It Gets Better
"I wish I could have talked to this kid for five minutes. I wish I could have told Billy that it gets better. I wish I could have told him that, however bad things were, however isolated and alone he was, it gets better." Dan Savage If by some fluke you're not familiar with Dan…