MCR and their associated advisors and consultants have submitted their planning application for the conversion of the BT Tower into a luxury hotel. The esteemed Dan Hill and I discussed it at length on YouTube. One of the things we talked about is the likely effect LLMs etc will have
The first Interesting Assemble is a week today. Tickets are still available and still free. And, excitingly, we can now announce a very special guest for Interesting Assemble II - the return of Dave 'Funkypancake' Simpson. Old school interneters will remember Dave's work with enormous affection. He
I was a bit afraid that talking to Alex Morris would be a disappointment. I've been reading Strat_Scraps for years and I've loved it all that time. But part of the thrill is how eliptical it is. It's a compendium of strategic detritus
Flora and I discussing the things we won't miss about advertising.
As I become more 'senior' I realise that the biggest contribution I can make to my team is to stop bothering them with my ideas. Here's why: Ideas are bad Ideas are incredibly easy to have. People are having them all the time. I remember in
It has become an (almost) daily habit for me to get up early, to find someone to sit with a coffee, to watch the world go by, and to play some music. And to stream it on YouTube. I like the imagined/possibility of an audience. Yesterday's outing
Thoughtful. And a great way to 'present' a 'presentation' "Humans are not efficient readers. We can read about 240 words a minute, and an agent can write about 4,500, which is 19 times faster than we can read. So there’s a huge mismatch
I apologise for starting with Eno but he's like a stopped clock with extra hands; quite often right. He once wrote this: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video,
I'm working on a long, slow am-I-really-doing-it? project looking into the possible merits of putting digital business systems back on paper. (Contrary? Check!) In my head I call it Paper CRM. It might be that. A side effect is that I notice/get a
The 4764 podcast grinds on. I still love it. The latest episodes are also built from video, if you'd like to look as well as listen.
I was lucky enough to have another great internet chat the other day. This time with Tom Loosemore. We discussed bins, bin day, whenisbins and, as the literary non-fictionists would say, used that as a lens to talk about digital public services and AI. Tom has written words about
I was recently very annoyed by an episode of Past, Present, Future about how short-form video is a Bad Idea. It was lazy and silly and I vowed to make a short form video rebutting it all. (I haven't done that yet, probably because of my terribly-
Some good stuff in here "We're maintaining institutional complexity by transferring its cost downwards and calling it efficiency." "The problem is that cultural risk and organisational waste were being subsidised by the same cheap money, and we learned to treat them as the same kind
Opinion Show
I've been a fan of Matt Jukes for ages. He has a deep commitment to digital public service. He has a sly sense of humour. He puts his effort where his mouth is and his heart on his sleeve. A little while ago he wrote a blog post
Interesting Assemble
As previously discussed we're trying an experiment with an online mini-Interesting on September 30th. One short talk and then some discussion. Our guest will be the historian Dr Helen Castor who talked at Interesting 2016 about Digging Up Kings. I'm hoping we'll find
After Advertising
After a bunch of 'exploring' Flora and I have started on Season Two of our podcast. We're calling it After Advertising because that's what we are, and it's possibly an interesting theme. We've started off with three things each we&
Stumbled past this conversation on LinkedIn today... See...
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@painesplough_ blank is about blank who wants blank, but blank is stopping them… A writing prompt, imparted to Roy Williams from the late great Stephen Jeffreys. 📽️ @DMLK Video Meet the Writers is a video series from Paines Plough about the power of storytelling and theatre. Take a seat with some
I had a long and fascinating chat with David and Jeffre the other day. They wanted to talk about Cog for their interestingness project and knowing a conversation with them is always fascinating I asked if I could record it. We rambled on and on. But it reminded me of
I've just recorded an hour's chat with the esteemed Dan Hill about the development of the BT Tower. It's on YouTube as part of my ongoing fascination with the tower, and it's development. And I've realised, it really is my
@ticketybooks Ranking the greatest opening lines in picture book literature, including #EricCarle #ShelSilverstein #SandraBoynton #kidlit #picturebooks #booktok ♬ original sound - Tickety Books @thegreedydick Eggs with a side of a shrine to Joan Collins Max Cafe on the Clapham Road, a weird bit of London's food history londonhotspots londonfood londonfoodie
Earlies
I've been going out and streaming mixes from various outdoor locales. This morning I was by the lake in Regents Park. I think it makes for a nice combo of gentle ambient music and gentle ambient nature. It also featured a large fish jumping, occasionally, from the lake.
The original Peter Skillman talk Tom Wujek's talk, with lots of data