Tuesday, 6 March 2012

everything

I am not sure if it is just me but I go through phases of writing alot on various blogs and then not writing any for ages. There is the stock response of I have been busy and now let me tell you what I have been doing. However what I really think it is, is that we as people are always learning and testing naturally we are curious and looking for new things to experience. These events are generally so different and diverse that they make you challenge your thoughts about many things. This then leads to the fact that you are not immediately able to articulate exactly what you think about the new learning and then what value that learning has.

So this last year there have been a load of experiences that have in many ways changed my thinking about a lot of issues. So for those that are interested I am listing a few issues that have stirred these changes:

- good businesses evolve and become more experienced.
- the only way you can get better is through testing and prototyping.
- i am not good at anything :-)
- owning is wrong but there is something nice about it.
- being social is a lot of effort, but saying yes is way better than staying at home.
- ideas are really not that new. making them happen is HARD.
- you are always going to meet someone who you can't have a conversation with.
- people love people, why else would you day on day cram yourself into the smallest places to get to work.
- one man occupancy cars in the morning should be band.
- every so often there will be an amazing tv advert that gets things just right.
- street games really, really, really create amazing life changing experiences for the players.

I think that is about it. I am going to try and write about all of these as soon as I get a chance. IS there any one in particular people would like to hear about first?
10 commandments aardvark academi advertising Amnesty International animation anthony gormley apartment apple Architecture arg ariel advert ark ark in the park arnell ashes atrium attic2 authenticity awards b2b b2c ballon barack obama barcelona barclays beatles Beverages bilingual birmingham blackwell blast theory bouldering Boulders brains brand communications Branding braun breakin the bay british library Bruce Willis business bute park call of duty canada cancer care cymru Canton capitol Cardiff cardiff design festival Centre champions league chapter charity chile China Chinese chris Anderson climate change Climbing clinic console cool hunting cradle to cradle cradlecardiff cream creative cultural skills cricket customer service dafydd ellis thomas daily mail debenhams dell design design thinking Design Wales design week design yak destination dieter rams digital dinosaurs and robots dme award DMM drink driving Driving School drum dublin E:DN ecodesign ecodesign centre wales ecom economics economist Eistedfodd election elmwood Ely empty shop environmental event everwake experience fail festival Ffres awards Fifth Element Film fitness focus groups font Food football fourth plinth freddie flintoff free game Gelert good magazine Google google wave grafitti graphic design greenwashing guardian hay festival HBOS helvetica hitwise Hoffi howies ideo iglab ikea illustration in the air india innocent innovation interior design internet interviews iPhone irony john thackara Jonathan Sands journalism Karcher keep cup kevin bacon kodachrome kodak lamborghini landor Lang Lessons limegreen events Luc Besson mac magazine making malcolm gladwell marketing Marks and Spencer marmite Martin Raymond Mass localism masters matt mason Melin Tregwynt memory microsoft MISC modern warfare mos def Movie muji museum nakedwales natalie jeremijenko nec NESTA network science networking new york new york times nintendo norton and sons NPD oasis Olympics open source orange Origami packaging paris parkour peacocks pepsi pervasive gaming Pete Fowler photography Pierhead building pirates dilemma pitching playark playboy Poland pop-up shops presiding officer print product design Publishing puma questionnaire real madrid recession retail richard reed Robert Rockport Sainsburys savile row seminar senedd service design services seth godin shopping shows Signage simon elvins six degrees of separation snow Sobor social design social media specialist spillers sport Stefan Sagmeister storytelling strategy street artist Streetwise supermarket sure for men sustainability swan vestas tactileBOSCH take that talks tango technology Ted and Karlsson television tender the institute aesthletics thinkark thinkpublic thistle hotel toby ng tourism traffic transparency treasure hunt trend triple velvet tropicana tryvertising tuttle twitter ty newydd UEFA underground map unicef urban psychology uwic viral vitra waitrose wales wales at home Wales Millennium Centre Wally Olins website Welsh wii wiki workshops wyeverne electrical x-box xbox yoko ono zappos.com