An online notebook
I’m loving Scott Berkun‘s The Year Without Pants – an account of the time he spent in startup land working with Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. I’m going to do a full write up at some point, but some bits of the book are so good I can’t wait to share them. Here’s one. Every … Keep reading
I was chatting the other day to my pal Dave Coplin from Microsoft who told me he was deep into writing a new book. Awesome! It made me go and look back at his previous one, Business Reimagined (free on Kindle!), that was published last year. A delightfully short read at just under a hundred … Keep reading
As Samuel Beckett wrote, in Worstward Ho: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Acknowledging the fact that we surely don’t really want our project to fail, what does failing better actually mean? It’s surely about openness – in other words, admitting that things didn’t go to plan, and having … Keep reading
Just fabulous. http://vimeo.com/65576562
Donald Barthelme, in See the Moon?, in 1968: Fragments are the only forms I trust. Italo Calvino, in If on a Winter’s Night, a Traveller, in 1979: …the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. Gordon … Keep reading