December 2009
14 posts
Goodbye naughties and welcome twenteens! I’m off to spend 10 days in silence. http://is.gd/5sDdM
It sounds scary at first, doing absolutely nothing for a whole ten days, but once you have been through it, it’s the best holiday ever. Ten days to actually stop and rest. When last did you get a chance to do that ?
The first time I did it, I learned to sleep for the first time since...
I actually bought a track on Itunes: “Killing in the name of” is now mine, again.
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Walking. It’s sometimes the best way to think. Maybe I’ll reach the office, maybe I won’t.
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The birds escorted me through the park. It felt a bit special - but I think they are just hungry.
I had just stopped for a moment next to the pond. I had my headphones in my pocket and thought it might be nice to use them. I put the vegetables down on the bench and reached into my jacket. I think this was a signal.
In a matter of seconds I was surrounded by birds. Ducks first, they are fast and...
I love the idea of software that runs on humans.
As Open source software projects grow the cost of communication grows even faster.
At some point in the life of the project the energy required to develop the community process becomes greater than what is needed to develop the software.
In order for any kind of open project to succeed, the “social software” must be developed as a fully fledged part of the process.
exactly two women at the openhardware conference. This is a problem. #openhw
I have a great belief in the big ideas behind open source. Although the modern version of all this has come from a traditionally male dominated software world, I really think that there is something very female about it. It is very important to break this male / female divide.
So much of any open source project has...
Insurance. One of the great scams of the modern world. As a South African, I have been trained to get medical insurance, but for the last seven years I have been pumping money into the coffers of evil money launderers for what seems to be absolutely no reason.
I think it’s time to stop.
Learning to use my brain is taking a little longer than expected. I had assumed that it would all just come naturally, but that does not actually seem to be the case. Slowly, and only with a lot of effort, am I learning to bring my mind under my comtrol.
Beginning the process of learning to meditate is one of the most important things I have done in my life. After a few years of regularish...
Reinventing School of Everything →
It’s been amazing to watch School of Everything grow, but something has to change. One of our fundamental principles with the whole project has been our belief that, in order for us to achieve what we wanted to achieve, we needed to be a sustainable business. So far, the money has not matched our growth - and it’s time to step back and take a fresh look.
Notes on Open Source
I think I am becoming more and more sceptical of technology as I get older. Sometimes it’s best just to use pen and paper. For my last presentation, I just scanned in the pages from my notebook.
Notes on Open Source
In the beginning (again)
I’ve started again. A new blog, a new phone and now I need some new friends. Well, it’s not quite that bad, I just want to sort out my address book. I’ve got over 1000 contacts and I don’t even know who they are any more.
I collected many personal details during my first few years of arriving in London. I went everywhere and just got involved. Now, I am a little more...