Keith Sawyer spots some research that looked at some famous “loner” creatives and found that their most creative periods coincided with less social isolation.
Beyond marshmallow motorbikes
Improv can still be powerful when it’s mundane
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Fierce collaboration
Finding space for stronger feelings in collaboration
The joy of conversation
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
Collaboration
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
David Bowie says IP is in for a bashing
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
Thinking or Doing?
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.
Denham Gray on the unspoken
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
Speaking the unspoken
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
Spam comments and the power of community
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
Upcoming events
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
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Scoble and the way ahead
Forget Lovemarks. If you want to see the future of marketing just read Robert Scoble and specifically his latest Open Letter to Bill Gates. (For those who’ve not come across
20 December 2004
links for 2011-08-30
The Technium: Why the Impossible Happens More Often "A single bee lives 6 weeks, so a memory of several years is impossible but that's how long a hive of individual
30 August 2011
A bit more Clippinger
Graham Hill in a comment to a previous post pointed me to another article by John Clippinger A Renaissance of the Commons. More first-rate brain food there. He kicks off
30 May 2006
The social life of entrepreneurs…
For many decades first in the Tatler and then Harpers & Queen there was a regular column called Jennifer’s Diary, a cut-glass chronicle of the author’s continuous social whirl among
27 September 2006
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