Gymns are great for unwinding, but the best bit of training a lot is being able to eat more. This is a good thing since food is my favourite thing in the world, apart from maybe drink, or a good cup of tea. Food is preparation; it’s relaxing and losing yourself in a task, the…

I like it when you stumble accross something new by accident. Isn’t that when you get something really fresh and interesting? To find something you don’t expect,  you have to get lost sometimes, or at least take a different route. I suppose that’s why I’m not too keen on rigid process, since it forces you…

  I was lucky enough to do the APG Briefing for Advertising course a couple of years ago. I’d highly recommend it to anyone since you learn a lot from the tutors (Russell was course leader), also from the other people on the course. I think this is an overlooked benefit of training – working…

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…