18

Jul

I had to take a trip back home to see my dad for his birthday - and it wasn’t nearly the chore that makes it sound like. However any time I’m back home he asks me to play a version of Fleetwood Mac’s Seven Wonders, and Meghan captured it on camera. It’s by no means a faultless performance, but by then it didn’t matter as we were all already well past the point where our hangovers could be mitigated the following day.

There’s some nice guitar playing in there if I do say so myself, and if you’re willing to forgive the occasional bum note, then there are worse ways to soundtrack your Sunday afternoon.

Hope you enjoy. Happy birthday dad.

P.S. I’m going to be posting a new music clip each week, so if you have a cover you’d like to hear, just ask.

17

Jul

Unlocking the elusive potential of social networks - McKinsey Quarterly

16

Jul

Why We Check In: The Reasons People Use Location-Based Social Networks

Why strategists should make stuff | Life. Then strategy

A fantastic note from McCann’s Mark Pollard on the value of doing. More on this shortly…

How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA

Four Hour Work Week’s Tim Ferris on investing and following the smart rules you make for yourself.

12

Jul

We’re moving at the same speed. And we’re doing it faster.

…(the internet) is allowing a more rapid pace of change in society not by enlarging our brains but by circumventing the natural world’s way of keeping us from mental overload – physical distance from one another. In a world where I can be as aware of the craze of the week among Brooklyn hipsters as I am of the latest fashion trends inHarajuku, what we’ve lost is the ability for an idea to have an artificial longevity via the time it takes to travel from one place to another.

From a new column of mine over at Uncluttered White Spaces. Hope you enjoy. AND, if you’re in Sydney, I hope you’ll be along to their next Innovation Forum this Wednesday night in Surry Hills. They’ll be focussing on sustainability, and it is bound to be great!

06

Jul

4 Proven Steps to Facebook Page Success | Social Media Examiner

Why Intelligent People Fail

Most of us have probably wrestled with many of these at some point.

spiers:

(via @aaronhicklin)

For the camera junkies.
From Canon Mugs, via the indescribable tebe_interesno (a brilliant Russian artist).
Wait I just described him.
Success!

For the camera junkies.

From Canon Mugs, via the indescribable tebe_interesno (a brilliant Russian artist).

Wait I just described him.

Success!

In 2008, Microsoft acquired a start-up, Danger, that had built popular mobile phone software, hoping that technology would revitalize its waning phone software business. But Microsoft stumbled as it took longer than expected to create a new product with the technology. In April, Microsoft finally introduced the fruits of this labor when it unveiled the Kin phones. In contrast, Google, a chief Microsoft rival, also bought a mobile technology start-up — Android. Both Android and Danger were co-founded by Andy Rubin, who joined Google.

maybe the team is more important than the product, brand, or technology when you buy a company

A Youthful Market Spurns the Wares of Microsoft - NYTimes.com

(via fred-wilson)