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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
Everything's Connected: Running Back In
What boxing, Barenboim, and Epidaurus have in common. The next “in person” Unreasonable Connection" for Coworking Community Builders is on the 19th of May, Space4, Finsbury Park. So Reader, Saturday night. Monday morning I go back to boxing with the Boy. I am not ready. I'm going anyway. I knew Giedre through Urban MBA - actress, dancer, martial arts expert, big part of what makes that place what it is. I'd asked if I could bring the Boy to Urban MBA one day so she could chat with him about
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
If ADHD was an Olympic sport, I'd be Michael
On ADHD, Elizabeth King, Herb Alpert at 90, and learning that constraints aren’t the enemy of creativity. You know what you should be doing. You’ve known for months. Maybe years. Launch the thing. Finish the website. Build the system. Stop winging it. But you keep pushing it down the list. “When I finally finish this...” becomes the thing you tell yourself every week. Every month. Every quarter. You’re not avoiding it because you’re lazy. You’re avoiding it because the options are infinite
