BLOG Retrospective: My Trello workshop at Hubud in Bali My family and I are currently travelling in Bali and Australia for a few months. It's our last chance for a grand gesture before our son starts school back in London in September. For the last 5 weeks I've been stationed at the lovely Hubud co-working space in Ubud, Bali. If you've ever wanted to work in a hammock while monkeys are sitting in the trees above you, this is the place to go! Not to mention the amazing group of highly focussed international entrepreneurs, digital nomads and online ex
BLOG How can I notify everybody on my Trello board? How can I message everybody on my Trello board at the same time? This question was asked by Chris Thompson of the amazing Green School in Bali at our recent Trello workshop at Hubud. He wanted to update his entire team in one go, without having to mention every team member individually. Interestingly enough I had the same problem just a week before. One of our test servers had had a software problem and needed updating - a quick message to the entire team prevented them from making changes until
BLOG My Cheeky Landing Page Question Stunt I thought it was just me? I am quite sure that I am the ONLY person in iTunes who has thought of asking the listener what they'd like to ask the guest. So here is where the idea came from. The best panel events I have run have been Q&A all the way. I always had to get Andy Bargery to chair the panel as I'd end up laughing at my own jokes and get into arguments. Seeing people at events "pontificate" from the stage vs doing Q&A is always a closed deal for me - Q&A wins. This post by Gary V a
BLOG 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
BLOG Failure + Time. The Inches Are All Around Us It is scary the inches between thought and action. I mean it has never been a strong point for me but now I have fine tuned how I track things and I am it scares me how often things just miss the ship point. I often talk about how nice the 48 people were who lent their insight to my "Bernie Superpower questionnaire" (inspired by Christina Canters) - the part that I glossed over and has come up from more than one person I have collaborated with is about - my reliability. One sentence stopped m
BLOG 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
BLOG 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
BLOG 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
BLOG 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
BLOG Working Out. Loud. This is going to be very very very short and even sweet. What is that image Bernie? It is one of David Bowie doing some Ziggy and has been hanging out in my media files for AGES. It has nothing to do with the post. ANYWAY I am here at 90 Mainyard trying to get my fucking feed to go into itunes and, well it won't. I had four things to do today and I have got two and half done. When i have done this blog it will be three. Today: Nils and I did our podcast about Trello that begun our invest
BLOG Under Pressure - Childhood to Fatherhood to Fascination WOW! My spine tingled. I had forgotten this.Two of my favourite things ever (other than you my reader) are Queen and David Bowie. I had the Queen Live Magic! And played it until it broke. Back then we lived in Southampton, went to school on Hayling Island and only person in our road had a car phone. I must have thought about this line every week of my life since I first heard it: “Chippin’ around, kick my brains ’round the floor These are the days – it never rains but it pours” Somet
BLOG It's All About Me So that did not work. Well it did. A bit. I am sitting here thinking that everything has added up to this point and I am glad. There are some cuts and bruises but everything is awesome and I am not even part of a team. WARNING: I am writing this at 100 miles an hour on a phone and it is brain dump rather than a work of art - sorry! There was confusion and a block and something did not feel right. I blame the meditation and the bulletproof coffee. I mapped out my miserable little life and al
