Category: Thoughts

1.What did you do in 2013 that you’d never done before? Put all my efforts into one project. 2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? No, pretty much stopped going to the gym in February, but thankfully have been keeping quite well. I’d like to try… Continue reading End of year review

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of… Continue reading August 28th, 1963.

It’s always nice to let people know what you’re working on right? Otherwise people will think I’m spending my days on Twitter scanning the #iot hashtag (ok, I do that too). I’m the founder of Good Night Lamp, a family of internet-connected lamps. We’re in the long ramp up towards good partnerships to kick off… Continue reading What I’m up to (no not weeknotes)

An excellent commencement speech on compassion and forgetting about self-centered thinking.

(a 6 year old tradition) 1.What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before? Talk to investors. 2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Yep have been going to the gym every week for over a year and adding a new sport. 3. Did… Continue reading End of year review

There’s a lot to be said for the amount of money technology projects receive on crowd-funding platforms versus charitable organisations or good causes. The Paralympics are starting in London tomorrow and I found this project on Indiegogo. A young woman looking to get a new prosthetic leg for her athletic career. I hope she can… Continue reading Funding the right things

I had the great pleasure of attending the V&A’s Power of Making symposium last month and chaired a panel with Bre Pettris, Adrian Bowyer, and Marloes Ten Bhomer. The whole day was fascinating and I think I might ask the panel more questions and publish them here. One thing that really gnawed at me during… Continue reading I make things: mapping the creative industries