Sometimes I go searching for something in an old post and stumble on other stuff I wrote years ago. This can lead to cringes but occasionally to things I think bear repeating such as this this reflection on how come collaboration sometimes seems so difficult:
Collaboration is a low status game. The offer to collaborate generally involves an opening up, a suggestion of vulnerability.
Improv can still be powerful when it’s mundane
Finding space for stronger feelings in collaboration
I’ve just had a delightful meeting with Emma Cahill co-founder of publishing house Snowbooks. They describe their approach thus: We publish far fewer titles than
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
I’ve been thinking a lot about what goes unspoken in the world in general and in my little slice of it in particular. There I
I spend too much time thinking. A friend revealed to me recently that he would describe me to acquaintances as a brain on a stick.
No sooner do I finish my last blog than I stumble on Denham Grey’s eloquent thoughts: Wonder if you can really capture tacit knowledge by
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs
I’ve always really enjoyed speaking in public. Don’t know why, just do. So I’m chuffed that a couple of interesting events have come up for
Sherry Turkle is an MIT professor who is fascinated by conversation. This article on her ideas made sense to me. Conversations, as they tend to play out in person, are
Rob passes on a great story from Chris Matyszczyk at cnet about Ikea’s campaign to launch a new store in Malmo. They opened a Facebook profile for the store manager
There’s something about the Blog of Death’s short obituary on Ed Earnest that touched me.Edward Earnest believed in giving people second chances. Forty years ago a prison warden and a
I’m very glad to see Ton‘s announcement that he’s found a new job. And excited by his reflections on the part blogging played in the process. Just lately I’ve had
