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Thursday, May 13th, 2010Just after I had graduated university, I was in a meeting at work and someone mentioned the word scope with regards to what we were planning to do. I stopped for a moment, and wondering exactly what this person actually meant. My internal monologue was one of embarrassed curiosity..”What does he mean, scope? I’ve never […]
Starting Up.
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Pete Yandell gave a great talk, entitled Starting Up, at Trampoline the other week and I liked it so much I thought I’d share a few thoughts on the topic and share a few of Pete’s more salient points.
1) What is it, in one line?
One of the points Pete raised was to tell people what your product is […]
Being content.
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Being content has been a strong topic of thought for me this week, following on from the post last week about being wise. There seems to be a real desire in society not to settle, or be content with ones situation. How often have you heard someone deride another because they settled, or took second […]
Thoughts from Trampoline.
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Trampoline 3 was held this weekend, and I thought I’d share a few of the threads that really came home to roost for me during the day. I feel like trampoline helps me quickly grok concepts I’ve often wondered about as I listen and bounce thoughts off others in sessions. It exposes me to things I have no […]
Being wise.
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Being wise has long been a sought after attribute in humans in our society. For centuries, many ‘wise’ people have been lauded singly for such a trait. But what is wisdom, and how are we all working on being wise every day in our lives? Perhaps the kid in The Matrix said it best. Maybe […]
Don’t force it.
Monday, April 26th, 2010There is a great scene in the movie Oceans 12, where George Clooney and Brad Pitts’ characters are walking together in Amsterdam brainstorming ideas to make $198M in 2 weeks to pay back the casino owner they stole from in the first movie, Oceans 11. The two are career criminals, smart con-men that run elaborate heists […]
Annotate the Game
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010I was having breakfast with good friend Amir Nissen this morning and we got to talking about how to learn, learn well and learn quickly.
Fast learning is not a particularly new concept - Tynan recently got a tutor to speed him through learning Japanese whilst Tim Ferris took to learning his language through martial arts. Both […]
Trampoline videos now online
Friday, December 18th, 2009It’s with great pleasure that I’m able to write this blog post today and point everyone to the new Trampoline Vimeo Channel, on Vimeo. The last Trampoline was run in late October and many of the talks shared on the day still resonate with me now. Talks like Dan Donahoo speaking about Edge Theory, Peter Spence speaking about Intergenerational Learningand, […]
Co-Preneur on Tuesday mornings
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009What are you doing on Tuesday mornings, between 9am and 12pm? Are you in Richmond around that time? Fancy doing some Co-Preneuring?I’ve recently been working on starting a business, called Indy Socks. You can see some Mission Reports that we’re posted on Ross’s site talking all about the concept. I won’t go into detail here […]
Peer producing a Trampoline presentation
Sunday, October 18th, 2009Trampoline is next week, and that’s very exciting for a whole host of reasons. Last Trampoline, I presented in a session in the afternoon on Biomimicry, but didn’t give it the justice the topic probably deserved. This time, I’m very excited to be working on a presentation with Xavier Shay which stemmed from the email discussion […]
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