Category: life
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Building a Meaningful Career
If I'm honest I get rather impatient with over-simplistic platitudes suggesting that the secret to having a meaningful career is simply to follow your dream. On the surface, and for some of us, this no doubt makes complete sense. If you have a dream then of-course you should do everything you can to find…
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OhLife!
I was rather saddened to get a notification that OhLife was shutting down at the end of this week. It was the simplest of diary/memory apps that sent you an email at the end of each day asking one simple question: How did your day go? Write a reflection on the day and you'd get…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An exceptional and very moving talk from writer Andrew Solomon (above) on how the worst moments in our lives make us who we are An antidote to the hype around the so-called 'sharing economy': The case against sharing “It turns out the Internet, like every other technology, doesn’t trend toward good or…
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BIMA Hot 100
Well. The British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) have named me in their 'Hot 100' list of people to watch in the UK digital industry which, several years after leaving corporate world to do my own thing, is nice validation. In the rush of the day-to-day, dashing from one job to the next, it's good to pause,…
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Persistence
In between meetings yesterday I went to look at the David Bailey exhibition, curated by the man himself at the National Portrait Gallery (which was wonderful) and in one of the displays typed onto a piece of card was this quote: "Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat". An extraordinary view on work, joy, and how to live rather than exist from Anna Quindlen, taken from a commencement address (above) never given but widely circaulated Lovely: What to do if you’re falling out of love with New York An exceptional post from Martin Wiegel…
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End Every Day With A Beginning
I loved this advice from Todd Henry for staying focused through long-arc projects and remaining less prone to procrastination and the 'assassins of creativity', particularly when we start work at the beginning of the day. Instead of always beginning with the end in mind, says Henry, we should end with the beginning in mind. His two-minute strategy…
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Hacking the Concept of Time
I really enjoyed this profile of Adam Magyar, the ‘renegade’ self-taught photographer who combines sophisticated photographic equipment, other retro-fitted hardware, self-written software, and an artist’s eye to unique effect. In ‘Stainless’, speeding subway cars and their passengers (often seemingly lost in their own worlds) are captured in exceptionally high resolution. Part of the project involved…
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Shipped in 2013
A year ago Ian Sanders wrote a post listing what he'd shipped in the past year. Seth Godin has done a similar thing before now. I rather like the idea of doing this. It's a chance to step back from the rush of the day-to-day and pause to reflect on what you've spent your time doing,…
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Hackschooling
This is an amazingly mature and insightful TEDx talk from 13 year old Logan LaPlante, who talks about how poorly the modern education system is aligned to what most of us want – learning how to be happy and healthy ("Most education is orientated, for better or worse, towards making a living rather than making…