chapter four – my 30s
There’s an interesting article on the HBR website today from Peter Bregman, the article is a bit sensational in it’s title, “Why I returned my iPad”. Bregman says that he missed being bored and spending time with his 8 year old daughter and so decided to return his iPad. As a result the comments have [...]
While having breakfast with some friends, the question “What’s your favourite product from a design point of view of all time”. It was an interesting question and some of the answers were totally linked to people’s backgrounds and personality. My mate N said the book, a product that’s still used hundreds of years after it’s [...]
While going through the pictures of the Obama White House on Flickr I came across a number of pictures of the President at play. With the new first puppy; There’s a ton of others, Obama with a basketball tossing a football in the oval office etc. Lots of great pictures. I love this for two [...]
I love London. I love the people. I love the energy. I love me in London. I love who I become. How I think. And the ideas I have. The idea that’s really captured my imagination right now is three word maxims, I’ve spent three days in London and have three principles of three words [...]
I don’t usually participate in meme’s, but the meme Jim Byford tagged me with is a pretty good exercise. Not to mention the fact that I haven’t written a post in December yet, I needed to be inspired and Jim’s post did the trick. A site called Mindapples has started a meme asking people to [...]
I was browsing through my rss feeds when I saw the headline “Why was witchcraft used on cows in the Scottish Highlands?” it made me laugh and I tweeted it. When I went to the bbc page I saw that they had changed the headline to “”Kirk papers reveal charmed cows”, by the time you [...]
During my last job, at a design agency in London, we had a pool table. At 530 everyday, almost like clockwork, 2-4 of us would go and shoot some stick. It was a great semi release, we would end up talking about projects or developments in the world of technology more often then not. When [...]
With Gordon Brown making the transition from chancellor to PM today I found myself thinking about the transition from managing the finances to being a leader. Actually it was more with the FT’s article humorously titled, “Eeyore must become Tigger of No 11” comparing business roles to characters in Winnie the Pooh. Segue: it’s interesting [...]