BLOG This Year Something Was Different I dread this time of year, I was bracing myself to plunge back into a God-forsaken pit of despair and depression and it never arrived. Every day I have woken up and double checked I am in the right life, right family and right blog.
BLOG Should I write the title first? Ok so I'll come clean, I have been thinking about this post all week. It was partly written and I was ready to go and then I was not. The one I had ready to go would have been way better than the crap you are going to read now, don't say I did not warn you. In fact I don't really know where to begin. So I'll begin here. Sometime last year me, Andy and Mitch were hanging out at Google in London and Mitch started talking about writers block and James Altucher - actually it was not about James g
BLOG I think the post I have been avoiding writing all day is this: I am very happy here in Buenos Aires and don't really want to get on that plane at the end of the weekend. This has been one of the best trips of my life. I feel bigger, faster, stronger - that is a song BTW - I know what I mean. The blazing sun and blue sky that follows #Babybernie and I on the way to the super market to by drinking yoghurt in the morning will be missed, I am even scared what it will happen to me when I hit the rancid grey sky of London. When I step outside the door I can fee
BLOG Falling towards Tigre.... This episode is brought to you from my favourite place on earth, no not the front row of a David Bowie concert, the jetty of our friends house in Tigre, just outside BA in Argentina. I am still trying to work out how we are lucky enough to have friends that decided to ditch their flat in the middle of BA to move to the very inconvenient and very amazing Tigre. Tigre is a Delta outside BA, I thought Delta was an airline, but it is a recently formed collection of islands - recently I mean 200 ye
BLOG I think I am ok now.... and other bits At a quick glance I could seem much more exciting than I really am, the last few weeks have been zooming to Lisbon for the European Coworking conference where I stayed in the Copass Camp with 30 other 'coworkers' from the Copass community. Then back to London where I am part of the team delivering the OuiShare Summit #6 which is split between Echo at London Legacy, 90 Mainyard, Verge Bar Brick Lane, Grub Club and Work Hubs in Euston and tomorrow the final Day is a Bar Camp / conference
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BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #28 Near my beloved 90 Mainyard there is the GIGANTIC swimming pool that was left there when the 2012 Olympic Games moved on. As well as walking past it a lot thinking 'now I have joined I really must go in there', #Babybernie has a swimming lesson in there every Thursday. We do it on this day because I look after him on Thursday's. Yes I only show up to work four days a week amazingly I get more done in four days than I ever got done in five days. Think about how much time you spend kicking the ty
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #27 It's NIL until you ship it. I am not going to be looking back at these last 27 or so days and thinking 'that was the best work of my life' but I am going to be able to spot where the contributions are to what will happen in the future. I was lounging around on my desk at 90 Mainyard pontificating about blogging and inbound marketing - again. Poor Nils, the super smart developer lead who sits next to me. He patiently listens to y semi-insightful drivel everyday and then goes back to his code a
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #26 I am feeling MUCH lighter today. We nearly emptied our house. On Saturday Diego and Sergio came round and #Babybernie was packed of to Anna's for the weekend and we set about taking the PILES of shit out the loft, emptying the cupboard 'above the stairs' (we live on the second floor) and piling it all in the corner with ruthless execution. I dived into the kitchen and looked for stuff we never use, even nice stuff that takes up space - tins we never bake in, scales that look cool but only just
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #25 Enough with the term entrepreneur! I thought it was just me and then Jason from the Artist formerly known as 37Signals made it a chapter in his book a few years ago. I was delighted, people far too near me were running around saying 'I'm an entrepreneur'. There was also another whole bunch of people with even less money than the 'I'm an entrepreneur' lot, they had usually swallowed a Tim Ferris book sideways and brought a PDF copy (this was before Kindles) to ma-ster-bate over everyday and pay h
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #24 So I started this #justanother30dayblogchallenge thing to kick myself into shape. I have seen many people do it, shout about how they are doing it and hope to get more twitter followers. This time I am blogging and I don't care if anyone reads it or not. No really I don't give a rats arse. Why? Because I am working out loud. I am in Beta. I am finding my feet. I am jumping out my comfort zone and don't mind what I look like. Of course I mind what I look like but if I shoot forward like this I
BLOG Just another 30 day blog challenge… #23 Ok so this is your next post and you have already started.What is going on with you today and what do you want to share?.Really? I am so fucking chuffed that I just can't stop writing and can do it so fast.So how about how far you have come and that you feel like you have leapt out of a car going over a cliff that has been on the way for ages and you knew you had to get out of it but were too frightened to do anything.I have always known I'd make it, I just knew. If you had looked at me on the w
