Yamamoto on starting

“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.” Yohji Yamamoto

Alan Alda on speaking in threes

Ozzy Moysey on aiming and missing

@gondwanarecords "You aim for something, you miss, then you find something else" #gondwanarecords #podcast #ancientinfinityorchestra #musician #ensemble #jazz ♬ original sound - Gondwana Records - Gondwana Records "You aim for something, you miss, then you find something else"

Notes - 19th of October

Excellent idea: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPlnQtmjMY2 "When Alexa Colas realized she needed more music in her life, she found a simple solution.⁠ She turned her living room into a record store. And a listening room. And a performance space. And the set of a @PhillyCAM TV show.

Jason Swet on designing spaces

@jason_swet 3 tips for art directing spaces: Whether it’s a pop-up, longterm retail design or IRL marketing activation, I find these are 3 things I have to consistently remind myself of. Highlights from the Post Malone designed @Raising Cane's in Midvale Utah And the @LONELY GHOST

Tearoom ambient

Big fan of everything about this NTS feature on 'tearoom ambient'. I thought I'd dig in a bit on the tracks that I liked. Jaroslav Kořán - Jarní Píseň Available on bandcamp "A patient and deeply intuitive album, Zahrada turns everyday sound into something fluid

Coffee mornings, unoffice hours etc

It's a bit weird, my old blog disappearing. I can't just google my past like I used to be able to. I guess indexing will eventually catch-up with the archive, but right now, it's a little forgetful. Anyway. This is a reminder and a

Hello Giles - digging in the archives

A correspondent has pointed out that the links to my blog from Doing Presentations are broken (because my blog is dead). And since Doing Presentations is the best site on the internet I thought I should dig in the archives to find the relevant archived links. And since RSS may

Angharad Yeo on taking care

@angharadyeo look i was whatever about it, then i saw the movie system one and thought i better say something, and then at that point they may as well fix everything ♬ original sound - Angharad Yeo

Samir Chaudry on expectation matching

@digitalspaghetti How do ‪@colinandsamir choose an opening shot? Want more Digital Spaghetti? Watch the full episode with ‪Colin and Samir‬ for FREE at https://patreon.com/digitalspaghetti #DigitalSpaghetti #creatortips #advice #interview #story #creativeprocess ♬ original sound - Digital Spaghetti - Digital Spaghetti

Erica Mallet on four smart strategies

The rule of opposites The enemy effect The unserved audience The personal brand story

Tyler the Creator on editing

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK4kBPjIQYS

Notes - 12th of October

Hashtags are resistance: https://etymology.substack.com/p/why-platforms-are-killing-the-hashtag Design is hard: https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/115033247036038265 Twisted firestarter: https://www.tiktok.com/@rustamdavletoff/video/7537071798987312440 Bad taxidermy: https://www.pi.fyi/rec/cmeftjofn0xp1qu4snhnsptjh World class pedantry: https://www.tiktok.com/@angharadyeo/video/7558789352894270728 Impact editor is an interesting title:

All That Energy

A new Elite Panic song... All That Energy, by Elite Panictrack by Elite PanicElite PanicBandcamp New & Notable Oct 11, 2025 Built in a similar way to this:

Clear communication from the Atlee government

Lucy Prebble on finishing things

@sheffielduni A snippet of writer and producer (Succession, The Effect, Mountainhead) Lucy Prebble’s speech this morning when she accepted her honorary doctorate ❤️ “Endings are hard. It’s hard to leave a city that you love and its hard when a period of your life like this ends. But its

Mark Forsyth on diacope

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKcBqaMKmfc

Presentation Club update

This is an email I'll be sending tomorrow to people who've booked a ticket for Presentation Club. Hello,  Thank you for getting a ticket for Presentation Club. * It's a month away now. November 5th at 7pm. (UK time). * The link to the event will

Email config apology possibility

A few people have subscribed to 'email versions of this blog' via buttondown. I suspect you've not been getting them because I've configured it wrong. Sorry about that. Hopefully you'll get this on Sunday. I think that now, you can also subscribe

September 27th, as precisely as possible

Christa Wolf wrote this in the preface to One Day a Year, 1960-2000: “In 1960, the Moscow newspaper Izvestia issued a call to the writers of the world, one that instantly appealed to me—they were to describe one day of that year, the 27th of September, as precisely as

Lost in time, like tears in rain

This post is for everyone asking about migrating from Typepad to Ghost. It is not in the archive so it will disappear when Typepad disappears. (I will put a copy of it on Ghost, too, for the record.) 1. I do not know how to migrate a blog from Typepad

Non-fun run

I've slightly been in denial about this. Various things have prevented training. But, I'm going to do the Royal Parks Half Marathon in a few weeks. And that now means that I'm supposed to ask you to donate to a good cause. If you&

New news norms

Apart from a brief mention on the radio this is how I learned about the extraordinary events in Nepal. 1. Via TikTok 2. Via RSS Who are Nepal's Gen Z? This seems like a reasonably healthy situation to me.

Talks as leisure

The other day a friend emailed me to say 'Here's the Gen Z version of your Interesting thing'. And he linked to Lost Property. It looks brilliant. I'm going to the next one on October 4th. It made me realise that maybe there'