Music for clouds

It was a grey day, but some tunes, and the sound of the city moved the clouds along.

Steve Jobs on marketing

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMHQQZGS0tr

Notes and links

"Wyle occupied a special place right at the center of “ER.” He was the youngest of the core cast members — almost painfully young. His face looked as if two babyfaces got together and had a baby babyface." "The best reason to ban vehicles from Oxford Street is

Good in vestments

Rather sweet and interesting programme from Radio 4 about what the clergy wear and why. And a good punny title.

Octavia Butler's notebooks

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSvHP0LjPbq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Eno on starting without knowing where you're going

It's an instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLSgQUTRJe6 Slightly regret how early Mr Eno has found his way in here, but he makes a good point.

The machine flattery is reaching out of the chat

I've started getting emails like this: Subject: Exploring a Potential Collaboration Dear Russell Davies, Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint is far more than a witty cultural riff on a piece of software most people love to hate. It is a perceptive, funny, and unexpectedly

Is Thomas Heatherwick going to pull down the BT Tower?

What's going on with the BT Tower now that it's been sold to a hotel group?

11 January 2026

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Learning and testing post-AI

(via Robin Sloan) this is interesting and positive. I wonder if this is a way to do the Account Planning School of the Web at some point.

Back on track

Presentation Club 3 was fantastic. Only one presentation but it was brilliant and interesting and we all learned a bunch from it. And it wasn't a middle-aged white man, so that's good too. Presentation Club 4 is on 4th of February. I'd originally planned

More music for the BT Tower

I done another ambienty mix... And...https://www.mixcloud.com/undermanager/music-for-a-twilight-tower/

4something

4something

For several years now I've been making these little podcast episodes, all about 4 minutes long. They're compilations of little bits of audio I've come across. Radio, podcasts, the like. I think it's my favourite thing I've done on the

Listening

Music for the BT Tower

I had a lot of fun doing mixes over the Christmas period. One cold, clear morning I made this very slow, very ambient mix. And then I did something similar for the BT Tower:

Getting ready for February

I know we're supposed to be suspicious of this kind of productiving preaching but I have to admit, I find it useful. It's not a solution, it's a help, a framework, a reminder that you're up to something. And I appreciate that

Lottabottle

Here it officially is, the first Account Planning School of the Web of the second quarter of the 21st millennium. (Is that right?) This is deliberately constrained to respect your time and mine, so it's a wee bit artificial. But go with it. I think it'll

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

It's time to start selling tickets for Interesting 2026. So, as part of a devilishly cunning content strategy I thought I'd do some interviews with former speakers. Alex was kind enough to volunteer to do the first one and I'm glad she did, I

Pre-existing slop

I've been mucking about with TikTok for a while. I like exploring new media things. I've been using Things That Have Happened In History as inspiration for some of them. Like George Eliot's to do list and Virginia Woolf not making New Year resolutions.

Eliter Panic

I built some more music out of TikTok and Suno. It's Just Money

The case for Blogging in the Ruins

This is excellent. via Phil. Come on Ben.

How to write more postcards

Good advice from Giles: https://gilest.org/notes/how-to-write-more-postcards.html

Stratscraps

I've been reading stratscraps for years, in one form, in one place, or another. It's so envious, it's so good. It's genius in form and content. A commonplace book, a box of mulch, a bag of ideas. I wish there were more

Why do you like this?

Why do you like this? is a new newsletter from Seb Emina. He's an amazing interviewer and writer and 'why do you like this?' is a perfect idea. It especially struck me because I've been a Bing fan/collector for years but somehow, of

Music for New Year digital admin

At some point in the next 72 hours or so you'll need to do some digital admin, to get yourself ready for next year. That's what I was doing when I recorded this, so maybe, in a way, we can do it together. Or you could