We had the first Northern Planning summit at The Showroom in Sheffield last night. I got there first and sat down with a coffee to do a bit of work. Strange nervous feeling at this point, I sort of know these people, but I’ve never met them before. James arrived next. We swapped notes on…

Out and about tomorrow so limited blogging. The day will end with a drink and a chat with the famous Rob Mortimer and the not so famous James Boardwell. With any luck there’s some sort of ‘beer goggle effect’ for interestingness and they won’t catch on that I’m actually as dull and predictable as this…

I’m not really into fashion (as some of the sporadic self portraits on this blog will confirm) but I still like this great example of a corporate blog from GQ. On another tack, it’s another example of our increasing need for editors in our lives. The Long Tail and the increasing plethora of choice means…

Stuart pointed me to this site. Genius way to champion learning by doing. Reminds me of this and this. Introducing Demotivators® MOTIVATION. Psychology tells us that motivation- true, lasting motivation- can only come from within. Common sense tells us it can’t be manufactured or productized. So how is it that a multi-billion dollar industry thrives…

Interesting  post on waste from No Man’s Blog. It shows how much individuals could help the environent if they knew how easy it is. Yet most of the questions the media asks tend to be about the big, difficult things with no easy answer; like nuclear power, Kyoto and the behaviour of governments. It’s easy…

I make no secret of my love for tea and here’s more persuasion to choose the leaf over the bean. "Wake up with the Freedom fighters" declares the website for Contra Coffee. It offers coffe grown by the former Contras, the CIA backed militia that waged the dirtiest war against Nicaragua’s Sandinista governement. During the…

Charles Darwin was a shy man and avoided public debate, but he still welcomed criticism. When he first published his theories on evolution, his argument was flawed but thankfully, lots of people wrote and told him so. He read every single letter and used the continuous feedback to refine his work in later editions. Without…

..and well on the way to turning into a ‘grup’.

According to German sleep physicians, our bodies are out of synch with the world we now live in resulting in social jet lag. Thanks to a mismatch of about two hours between our biological clocks and the demands of our jobs,at least half the population feels sluggish,disoriented and dazed. They say the solution is to…

‘ ‘The Happiness Hypothesis’ by Jonathan Haidt explains a lot about heart v head. He explains that animals run on automatic processes – in-  built mechanisms that give us a little dopamine reward when we’ve done something like eating or having sex, anything that ensures our long term survival. Humans have managed to make it…