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The Song, The Memory, The Marinade
Service is black and white. Hospitality is colour. At 11pm on Friday, I was alone in the kitchen making a marinade for Cuban pork. Did I want to go to bed? Yes. Was I absolutely fucking loving putting it all together? Of course. Our son—the Boy, the child formerly known as #Babybernie—and I had planned to make Cuban sandwiches together. The ones from the film Chef. We went to the supermarket, hunted down the exact ingredients, and had a conversation with the butcher about the best cut of me
We never had a plan. We just opened the door.
So Reader, Back in 2016 when Phil and I ran WorkHubs in Euston, there was a garage between our building and The Wesley Hotel next door. The Wesley was London's first ethical hotel. Their entire USP is sustainability. Everything they do. James, the hotel manager, decided to pull the garage door up. They made a pop-up café and a tiny garden out of pallets and reclaimed wood. Doug Shaw came along with a friend and did an art project. That artwork is still there today, 10 years later. The garage
Being a Creator Isn't a Lifestyle Choice. It's a Survival Decision.
On who holds the tired, neighbourhood infrastructure, and why Fela Kuti's New Afrika Shrine employs 150 people So Reader, In his Happy Citizen Friday newsletter, Gavin highlighted Priya, a Re-Action community member who didn't build her network by collecting business cards. She built it by hosting. By sharing. By creating a space where people could just be. As Gavin framed it, networking asks: "What can this person do for me?" The community asks, " What can we build together? He added quote
The Song, The Memory, The Marinade
Service is black and white. Hospitality is colour. At 11pm on Friday, I was alone in the kitchen making a marinade for Cuban pork. Did I want to go to bed? Yes. Was I absolutely fucking loving putting it all together? Of course. Our son—the Boy, the child formerly known as #Babybernie—and I had planned to make Cuban sandwiches together. The ones from the film Chef. We went to the supermarket, hunted down the exact ingredients, and had a conversation with the butcher about the best cut of me
We never had a plan. We just opened the door.
So Reader, Back in 2016 when Phil and I ran WorkHubs in Euston, there was a garage between our building and The Wesley Hotel next door. The Wesley was London's first ethical hotel. Their entire USP is sustainability. Everything they do. James, the hotel manager, decided to pull the garage door up. They made a pop-up café and a tiny garden out of pallets and reclaimed wood. Doug Shaw came along with a friend and did an art project. That artwork is still there today, 10 years later. The garage
