“For fucks sake…” I’m at the help desk at JFK. A sweating, overweight man in front of me isn’t all that pleased about the help on offer. “Seriously?” (This word seems to be the current U.S. abbreviation for “Is it just me, or do you detect a touch of irony in this exchange?”) The […]
It was business guru, Seth Godin, who popularised the term “Permission Marketing”. Like all new phrases, Permission Marketing emerged from the culture that surrounded it. We had grown tired of its opposite force – “Interruption Marketing” – the barrage of information coming at us from all forms of media. “Buy me! Notice me! Like me!” […]
I knew there was a problem when the head of site services stormed into the Production office demanding payment for 30 toilet doors. Before that I was too stressed to wonder what the small bonfires in the distance were made of. It was cold. So, in a gesture of creative anarchy, the heavy metal […]
Just finish the damn book already. There are too many books. The world doesn’t need another one. Nobody reads anyway. I need coffee. Another? I thought you were trying to be healthy. What about a green juice? But I’m writing. I haven’t got time to make juice. Who are you kidding? You haven’t written a […]
It started out so well… like most ideas whose time had come. No-one knows exactly HOW it started, but suddenly people began waking up to the fact that the future wasn’t fixed. It could be changed. WE could change. Strange now, to imagine that things could ever have been otherwise, but before the 1960s […]