Category: think

Brian Eno And Having One Idea | Tasty Soul Food

A little bank of wisdom.

“Distortion is character. A deviation from perfection. Perfection is characterless.”

Just one part of the 26 strong (and growing) Voice video campaign from Dunhill (the luxury clothing and ex-cigarette brand).

Wonderfully delicious vignettes of a whole host of artists and adventurers sharing their process, their insights, their being.

Simply shot video likes this conveys a level of intimacy which transcends the usual interview format and offers more to us as beings who strive.

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Imagine If… | Reframe

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Reframing the social media conversation.

Imagine if… Charles Darwin flickr’d his notes.

Imagine if… Nikola Tesla streamed his experiments.

Imagine if… Anne Frank blogged whilst she hid.

Imagine if… Albert Einstein google doc’d openly his work in progress.

Imagine if… Mahatma Ghandi tweeted.

Imagine if… Jimi Hendrix had Soundcloud.

Imagine if… Abraham Lincoln podcasted his presidency.

Imagine if… Amelia Earhart live-mapped her journey with GPS.

Imagine if… we stopped talking about social media as a marketing tool!

Your turn (in the comments below)…

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To This Day | Anti-Bullying

One of the most powerful anti-bullying films ever made.

“We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog cos we see ourselves in them.”

So powerful.

So true.

So well done!

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The Original Social Media Anti-Expert | Me

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Been introduced as a social media expert / guru / master / ninja (shudders) etc too many times.

“Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.”
Alvin Toffler

Been saying stuff like this for over four years…

It’s time to live it out.

Leave by a different exit.

Go a different way.

Change down gears.

Be more humble.

Become an anti-expert (for a while)!

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The Learning Hill | The Learning Pit Remixed

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A re-envisioned model of learning.

Came across James Nottingham’s / Dr John Edwards ‘learning pit’ a few years back when delivering some social media training in an English school and was reminded of it again recently at a couple of conferences here in NZ.

A totally agreeable and digestible model.

Above is my take—’the learning hill’—in my experience, it works better as an ascent:

  • climb—it takes guts to start, a keen eye to spot a route, explore the track or path to forge, courage to continue (as you stumble, fall, fail and loose your footing or encounter the need to backtrack many times);
  • reflect—as you get closer to the summit, satisfaction of acquiring a new skill or insight needs reflection, an opportunity to survey new horizons, to ponder it’s full use and application;
  • apply—the ride down is as complex as the scale up, it’s all about using the wisdom gained, extending possibilities with others (through storytelling), creating positive and lasting change (and maybe starting the whole journey again).

Just a thought.

If it helps, take it.

Remix it again.

Hat tip back etc.

Related post : Education vs Life | A Thought and in the comments at Humanising Wisdom | An Exploratory Presentation
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Webstock 2013 | Liveblogging Day One

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For the next two days I’ll be opening my brain / heart to the Webstock experience, here in Wellington, NZ.

Usually I tweet the hell out of these things but the idea of filling the tweetmail stream with stuff which might not be relevant to my audience has led me here.

What follows are my observations, quick notes, insights, idea captures etc.—sometimes paraphrased, sometimes not, all caught on the fly (full webstock programme):

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The Icarus Deception Cheat Sheet | By Me And Seth Godin

the icarus deception cheat sheet

Grab the much-more-readable PDF version (2.2mb) by clicking image above.

The Icarus Deception was the book Seth Godin got paid to write via this Kickstarter campaign.

There are some gems in the notes above and it’s a motivating read (even if—as with most of his books (which I’ve read)—Godin simply coins a phrase and describes a process which you already understand but might not be doing anything about).

Then again, maybe that’s the strength of his work—if you’re too focussed on the finger which is pointing you miss the heavenly glory.

Thanks to Anna for lending me the book in the first instance.

Other cheat sheets: Rework and The Element
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