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2015

Three Stories That Pissed Me Off This Week

A couple of the things that piss me off in the world are manipulation and outright greed. As you know I am a huge fan of tribes, communities and collaborations. Somewhere in a Stephen Covey book about ten years ago I read a line about about being interconnected and interdependent - it was what I had always - and I mean always - been hacking to evangelize to people. That is a fucking dangerous word "evangelize" and immediately makes me think of Catholic Ships arriving on a beach in North Afric

90 Days of Massive Action #2 (Prequel)

Mandela was pacing the room, he was forced to walk in circles around the small conference table in the middle of the meeting room at 90 Mainyard. Ghandi was drawing on the white board in between a mind map the developers had left and the business canvas the musicians had left, to Mandela's annoyance Ghandi was making faces and animals. Nelson, this one could be a swastika if I rubbed out the number 2 said Ghandi with a cheeky smile. Why are you so annoyed today? It is not good for your brand i

Death Camps and Doughnuts

I have a few doughnuts on my plate and there was one I was looking at with enthusiasm. Then someone took the jam out of it. Well, of course, they didn’t. I did. I tried something and it did not work and I am a little pissed off. However, the reason I am pissed off is that the Bernie who is writing this would not have laid the ground work to make that thing not work in the first place. Sorry, I am being a bit cryptic here, it is not for shame or legal reasons – I am hoping by talking about t

Getting it all in.

As #Babybernie has grown up I have shouted "focus" at him when he was doing things like learning to eat with a fork for the first time or was holding onto the sofa to try and walk. This killer comedy line has come back to bite me in the arse. The arse bite happened at the Rural Hub in Italy at the OuiShare summit, every time I was presenting a project or suggesting something in front of the community - yes in those precious moments when everyone is obligated to at least look like they were lis

Drowned and the Saved

(This post title is certainly inspired by Primo Levi) As the bulldozer pushed the dead and nearly dead bodies into the hole in the ground that had been dug by the same people who were now dropping into it. As the TV in Westfield shopping mall in Stratford showed pictures of celebrity chefs making street food. Most excitingly this week was "European Peasant Food" made from simple and nutritious grains and wild herbs. Inconvenient Meanwhile downstairs in a pub off Whitehall a man in a grey sui

Am I Unemployable?

I thought I was doomed, weird and broken, now I know there are others like me We are the unemployable. There are a lot of us around, and most of us have read the Cluetrain Manifesto. It’s our guide. . I was playing golf with podcasting legend Neville Hobson a few years ago and he proudly said 'I'm unemployable'. I thought, “Neville you drive an Audi, wear jumpers without logos and open doors for ladies - how can you be unemployable?” Then we started to talk about tech, leadership and sales

It was late when I got back to the office......

90 Days of Massive Action #2 It was late when I got back to the office at 90 Mainyard. There was an eerie calm to the place and all the lights were off. At the back someone had left a desk fan on, I heard a bump and saw the office cat scurry across the floor. I moved towards the fan to switch it off, as I passed the blue meeting room I noticed someone sitting in the chair at the head of the table. I stopped. Should I not be scared? Hello Bernie, want some tea? Nelson, what are you doing he

90 Days of Massive Action #01

I think I am finally there. While we were up on a mountain in Italy for the OuiShare summit a lot of things came together for me. At one point I was chatting and said I am not sure why I came, even more so, I brought #babybernie too and he did not know why I came either. So the headline is that I left full of a calm zest and purpose. What should have been the end of the road again for me turned into one of the best months in my life. I would even dare to say that I woke up after a long slee

What is Bernie's Superpower? Answer here and save the world.....

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"Be the change you want to see"

My big screen on my desk at 90 Main Yard has a cute picture - "Be the change you want to see" - I would like not to be an arsehole - but I am. I’d like to see a world with fewer arseholes in it. For those of you near me I am working on this - NOT being an arsehole that is. It is very tempting to make the picture for this post an actual arsehole, but then I am sure you'd think I am even more of one. Over the last few weeks, I have been drilling my head to find the line between energy with fir

A Sentimental Journey Through Spain and Italy #1

I have not done anything all day. Quite literally I am too excited to move. Tomorrow #Babybernie and I are off to Italy to a magical little place called "The Rural Hub" for the OuiShare Summit #7. Around 70 of us from all over the world will sit around and collectively discuss, decide and vote on what the OuiShare community will focus on for the next six months. I am more in love than ever with the OuiShare community, I missed the OuiShare Fest and was a bit sad. (Mainly sad that it was not

Do the work (slight return)

What is that Publicate thing? At least three people have asked me in the last few hours. Then last week as I hurriedly threw together my newsletter for the 20th time in Publicate,I thought I'd mention it, mainly as Chris, the founder, is a mate and also is launching the paid product after getting funding and two years of being Beta / pre-revenue - or whatever you Old Street kids call it these days. I did what any dumb marketer would do and mentioned it in my newsletter without context and the