What a country! Who would have thought, 8 months ago when I hired a virtual project manager via Upwork, that I’d end up with a dear friend and an Argentinian adventure. I met Paula online, needing someone to help me with one of my many entrepreneurial experiments I have been running over the past 18 […]
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Just over 3 months ago, I set off on an adventure. I had bought a car (Lancelot) and loaded it with my puppy (Lumi) and quite a lot of other luggage, and drove off. There were many reasons for this journey. Partly to get away from the distractions of London to focus on my next […]
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It is quite surreal to one day be walking on a Basque beach with uniquely shaped jutting stone cliffs, and the next day see it on TV as Daeneyrs’ ancestral home of Dragonstone. Here I was… And here Daeneyrs was a few days later (for me)… Quite wonderful.
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A week or two after I left Skimlinks, a year ago now, I first encountered this problem: that it’s hard to get things done in London sometimes. I mean, its great for networking and selling and having meetings… but it’s awful for getting focused work done. Most companies opt for open-plan offices, and more and […]
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Fresh with the learnings from my first 10 days in Avallon, I set-off on Phase 2 of my nomadic odyssey. This time, rather than drive to France via the Euro Tunnel, I discovered it was possible to drive onto and catch a 24-hour cruise-ship from Portsmouth to Bilbao in a pet-friendly cabin. This felt like […]
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I had a mission. A bold one. It was to go away to a beautiful rural setting, and find focus and flow so that I could achieve a number of deep work tasks. I intended to learn French. To learn to play the ukelele. To do yoga and meditation every day. To read the literal […]
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Last weekend, while wearing white jeans, white trainers and a white-ish jumper, you would have found me squatted over rich black soil, burrowing with my bare hands, in the pursuit of black gold. I was on a trip organised by the glorious David Rowan (ex-editor of Wired magazine) called Voyagers, which brought together a group […]
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London has been getting me down lately. Admittedly it is February, and I’ve long had a hate/hate relationship with the month in London. I have a personal saying: one should never make life-changing decisions in February, because you are more than likely over-reacting to the grim weather. However, the weather in London hasn’t been that […]
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For some reason I don’t question too hard, I have been lucky enough to be invited to WPP’s annual “unconference” Stream for 10 years. For those who haven’t experienced an “unconference” before, it is a conference with a structure but no content ahead of time. The content is volunteered and led by the participants, in […]
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One of the first items I put into my “Sabbatical” Trello Board of life dreams was to do a course in Esalen, Big Sur. A few years into starting Skimlinks, it became apparent that we needed to have a US base to cater to our American clients. As one of the co-founders, the mantle of responsibility […]
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