A home for the entrepreneurs the world needs
Let’s make Brighton the destination and the gathering place for people creating the organisations that will be the model for how business should be done in 2020 and beyond.
How to be an activist
Getting involved is easier than you think, your effort means a lot, and there are often opportunities to do things that you didn’t realise.
Real US News
There is a clear bias in the majority of news outlets. A bias toward the status quo and simple answers. Anything that challenges the norm, or is hard to understand, is at best dismissed, and at worst demonised. Alternatives to the mainstream US news outlets exist, here’s a list to start from.
Coffee Hours
Simple, informal, peer-to-peer advice for people working on ‘good’ initiatives, whether that be a business or not. Come and talk about anything that might be challenging you right now, an idea you have, or just to meet others.
A Home For Good Business(es) In Brighton
There are enough coworking spaces in Brighton, and my vision is not simply to rent desks out (while those are of course needed), but to create a destination — a club house maybe. Somewhere people can gather, work, meet, learn, and collaborate.
Use your space for good
There are ‘tech for good’ project teams springing up more and more, tackling difficult problems, and trying to have a positive impact. But they’re often voluntary, unfunded groups, and they usually don’t have anywhere to meet and work. This is where you come in.
Instead of giving U2 $100m
Things the internet would have preferred Apple do over U2 being given $100m for an album nobody wants. Would U2 have made $100m from fans buying the album? Unlikely. What else would we the internet have preferred apple have done, or spent that money on
The rules of science, sounds a bit like agile
In his recent continuation of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series, Neil deGrasse Tyson laid out the the rules of science: test ideas by experiment and observation, build on those ideas that pass the test, reject the ones that fail, follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything
Lean Founder
Semi-autobiographical, in no particular order, being a #LeanFounder: You don’t need that new laptop, a refurb will do, but your current laptop is fine until it dies. Plain eggs on toast is cheaper than eggs benedict, and better for your waist. Walk whenever you can. Traveling for a meeting? Make the rest of your time…
Decentralising online transactions
Or “online cash” – since I don’t have to hand my physical cash to Visa so they can give it to you for that coffee I just bought. Of course they’d like it that way, hence the push of “mobile wallets”, owned by guess who! (If not owned, reliant on the infrastructure of – this…
RockMelt
Update: I stopped writing this post, it got too long, and I got bored. Also, it looks like Meebo might have just pwned RockMelt anyway, with their MiniBar. This is an ever-changing space, and will require a followup post! It’s too early to form a proper opinion on this one, but here’s some initial thoughts….
Reuse and invisible familiarity in design
Some great backstories about things you see or hear everyday. Content used so much it becomes public domain, or more, part of the cultural landscape. Recognisable sometimes only subconsciously, but as a layer that stimulates familiarity, and builds on associations we have with certain genres, environments, emotions or experiences. I wonder if the associations we have with those things, the…
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