My wife and I have been having a lot of fun this month with our son Charlie. It all started when I read an inspiring blog post on something called Dinovember. For those who have not seen this explosive phenomenon, it involves simply convincing your children that their plastic dinosaurs come alive when they are […]
The Lies I Tell and The Excuses I Make
By November 20, 2013 3 Comments
I am a liar. I lie to those around me all of the time. More disturbingly I lie to myself all of the time. Fear has always really held me back from realising my true potential. Traditionally I have always taken the easy safe road rather than the road that I was destined to follow. […]
How do you create the greatest place to live on earth?
By November 13, 2013 9 Comments
I like big bold questions. They inspire, and provoke a different way of thinking. For me, there is nowhere better to apply this type of thinking than to the place where you live. ‘How do you create the greatest place on earth to live?’ is the question I spend much of my time thinking upon. […]
10x Thinking
By November 6, 2013 15 Comments
To me, one company stands out as most impressive in the world right now for its way of thinking. Not for its achievements today (although hugely influential), but for the impact its way of thinking will have on our collective futures.That company is Google. Their way of thinking is what they like to call ‘10x […]
Moving from the Beach to the Ocean
By October 30, 2013 19 Comments
In Mexico recently, I watched a turtle making its way from the beach to the ocean. On land, it is a huge struggle for the turtle to move forward until the point where it hits the ocean. From then on, the journey becomes effortless. It feels a lot like where I am right now. This […]
Your Life is Your Art
By October 23, 2013 Leave a Comment
Earlier this year I backed a Kickstarter project for an incredible book project promoting an ethos and type of living that really resonated with me. As a result, last week I got to spend a few days in London with the founders of Misfit Inc – one of the coolest companies on the planet. We […]
Introducing My Entourage
By October 16, 2013 Leave a Comment
I have quite an entourage these days. It surprises me, but people are actually interested in how I resource my life. When I‘m asked anything enough times, I start to realise I should blog about it. The way I structure my life is somewhat unconventional, but it allows me to do what I do in […]
The 4 Minute Mile
By October 9, 2013 9 Comments
In the last week I have spent time at some remarkable outlier education institutions: Singularity University, Uncollege and School of Communication Arts 2.0. They are all defying conventional wisdom yet delivering far, far more than conventional providers. They are all part of my continuing research to explore the edges of human potential with a view […]
The Secret Formula for Living a Great Life
By October 2, 2013 4 Comments
I discovered something quite unexpected last week. Something I would have happily traveled 10 times around the world for. I witnessed a masterclass in living from the most remarkable people I have ever met. The irony is that I hadn’t planned or expected to meet anyone so remarkable. I ended up in Rajasthan, India, not […]
Privacy is Dead. Long Live Transparency!
By September 25, 2013 10 Comments
I grew up in a small island community, where everybody knew one another and privacy did not really exist. I often joke about how this accident of upbringing provided me with great training for the future. Privacy is a relatively recent thing. Long before we started to cut ourselves off from each other in our […]