Difficult like Sunday afternoon
I'm sitting in front of the TV watching Graham Souness and Thierry Henry analyse the Arsenal v Everton match. It's a Sunday afternoon, we've just watched the second half of the game, having been out to see The Death of Stalin. (Death of Stalin - v. good. Second Half of the Game - v. good.) I can think of nothing to say in this email so I'm employing a classic mid-2007 blogging trick; just start writing until an idea occurs to you. Sunday afternoon is a difficult time to do that. I'm not normally this late getting something together.
And the idea's just occurred to me.
I've been doing a bit of training recently, sharing a loose bundle of thoughts about strategy and how to work with 'creative people'. That's largely meant assembling a huge powerpoint deck of all the bits that seemed to have worked in the past. Mostly not things I've thought of, just things I think might be useful. And revisiting that stuff, the bit that's seemed most true and effective is Ze Frank's brain crack episode. It's 11 years old. You can see him inventing so many of the techniques that would be 'vlogging', and understanding and pulling apart that kind of sustained creative act while he was doing it. The best way to have an idea? Just start.
(There are currently 350 of you. 350 ppm of CO2 in the upper atmosphere is considered the safe upper limit to avoid a climate tipping point.)