So this NYC chapter has ended, and another door has slammed shut in my face. Just kidding. Now the new blog, for obvious reasons is over HERE.
Toodle pip!
Helicopter view
In Blog on April 21, 2009 at 11:10 amSo tomorrow heralds my first day at work. The culmination of 4 months of hard lobbying and chasing. As a record I did this through an amazing network of friends and colleagues.
It’s poetic justice that just today, for the first time since I started applying for jobs on a certain media title’s website here in Asia, I received a ‘thank you for submitting your resume email’.
Good people grow good jobs. Experience counts, networks count. But what counts most of all is REAL HUMAN CONTACT – or RHC as I will call it. The reality is it’s what we got by on for the past few thousand years before web 2.0 pulled up in its big A Team van and reclaimed conversation through the fingertips and not the mouthpiece.
Aaahhh technology, the sweet sound of inflated EPS and borrowed time, the clashing of the small person with the big idea and the big company with the small mind.
With tech, be careful what you wish for. The best we can hope for technologies that enable us to be human… not the other way round.
SEX on the streets.
In Blog on February 9, 2009 at 11:24 amThe building I live in is really quite modern. It was in the NYT because of its free breakfasts – which I haven’t sampled yet, but due to the great depression I may well soon.
They take real care over how the lobby and even the street looks.
To the point where, whilst walking home from a particularly refreshing meeting this morning I was greeted by the word SEX spelt into the dirty street with a pressure washer jet.
In some circles this might well have been street-art, but to me it was a smile-maker, a welcome act of mischevious play that lightened my day.
