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These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company.

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato

“Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you work will. I never worked a day in my life.” – Dr. Leila Denmark, 100, USA’s oldest practicing physician.

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Concreting Complexity

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Who says fun is dangerous?

I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe

And I thought there was only one

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Christmas presence

Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas

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a newton's cradle with the left most of five silver balls about to descend towards the pack

Turn taking

not getting stuck at the centre of attention

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Social media and the mortgage crisis

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173 Drury Lane

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Open Source catfights

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