93. It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you without a …

This was meant to be written in the first week of the new year but life has had a tendency to get in the way. Then I was on a plane heading to Singapore - one of those flights which aren’t quite long enough to sleep, but also too long to ‘binge watch movies you’ve missed’. The ubiquity of smartphones with remarkably explosive batteries means that long haul flights now repeatedly tell you “not to move your seat if you drop your phone” - otherwise the seat mechanism might crush the battery and cause ‘a terrible electrical fire’. This must happen a lot because it’s become an even more common announcement than “fasten your seatbelts”.

I wrote a bit more, deleted a bunch, and it still didn’t get written. Then it was February and I was staying up very late waiting to join a conference call with some European colleagues. The rest of the house was asleep and so I was trying again to get this written and sent.

And now it’s a couple of weeks later and I’ve been overnight in Sydney to play a rare gig, having just finished a week where we hosted the 2nd Future of Arts Culture and Technology symposium at work (more on that in another Episode but here's the visual drawings from it)