I don’t know if it’s because it was Bastille day or just because for two days in a row we had mostly sun, but today it felt different, so I made a small resolution on writing down a note about it, and here I am in the heart of the night marking this last thing off the list. I’ll get better with timing, eventually.
The day started with me finding in a pocket of the jacket one of my small notebooks. I thought they were all buried deep in the stuff that still lays packed from my move, but no, this little boy was hiding there in the pocket, waiting for the right moment to jump out.
I started taking notes on the train to work. It felt so good. Sketching, especially.
I’ve always been more of a sketch-and-mind-or-concept-map person, but you can’t really do that on a computer keyboard.
Moreover, the little, continuous attention and discipline required to write in a controlled and decent way is, I think, unvaluable.
But enough of my prodigal notebook. The rest of the day has been characterized by meetings, that tends to cluster on mondays, which is good.
Headshift is in an interesting moment. Maybe the gorgeous new office space is blowing new energy in the team (again, having a LOT of natural light helps, I’m sure) but it looks to me that, even if the pressure is as high as usual, we tend to be more willing to get out, interact with the world outside and with each other.
6 Points of View from Tom Taylor on Vimeo.
Oh, today the balcony hosted a lunchtime meeting with Dejan Dinčić of Diplo, that turned into an exciting conversation on online learning and what social media practices share with it. The bottom line I soaked is that as in our case it’s more about the people than about the tools (that were the focus in early e-learning experiments), yet the right tools (not necessarily fancy or too playful by themselves) can seriously empower the community to a new level.
On other news, I spent the last few weekends extending my little FireEagle experiment. It started just after the FireEagle development meeting here in London, as a way to understand this fascinating API, and then evolved thanks to a few inspiring conversations over the course of the months into a proper, if maybe trivial, application. More to come on this subject very soon.
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