Things are changing. Fast. Sometimes it can be hard to articulate quite how much I feel that things are changing and those changes are speeding up. Even our (and my own) shift to visuals over words^. My friend posted the link to the images below on Facebook*. It portrays visually what I feel. Things are [...]

“Content, it turns out, is not king” Overwhelmed by all the data? How do you keep up with it? And your files? And filtering it… “… And that is what the Semantic Web could eventually promise to do.” And then there’s the critics… A little story about the Semantic Web by Kate Ray Web 3.0 [...]

I happened across Iranian artist/filmmaker Shirin Neshat via the Financial Times this week. There was an image from her Women of Allah series – and I had to find out more! Below you’ll find some of her achingly beautiful disturbing and challenging images. She also her first feature film out “Women without Men” – whose [...]

It’s rare that I post twice in one day, and so disparately but I’m a monkey brain and these are too good not to share. So I’m on twitter (@natstories shameless plug) and various other “social networking” addictive time sucking adventures in friendship & acquaintance. Some, like this blog, have been wonderful connections professionally and [...]

“From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts” – Po Bronson, What Should I Do With My Life I  started reading this book again. It’s surprisingly honest and engaging. Refreshing even. Argh, I sound like some scary mark-comm writer. Still, the sentence above struck me. And as I write it, it gets me thinking again… [...]

I would like to invite you to watch "The Story of Stuff". Have you ever wondered where all this stuff comes from…and where it goes when we throw it out? Created by Annie Leonard (and a team…) The Story of Stuff details exactly that – how stuff travels through our system! And it presents extremely [...]

What does real change look like?  I drew this up to amuse myself the other day while musing on real change at the same time as writing about organisational change processes for a client…and watching/dealing with the changes thrust upon people close to me … I actually think I first ‘created’ the doodle while working [...]

Verba Volant / Scripta Manent = Spoken words fly away / but writing remains  via The Treehouse  – Naomi Wolf  “…This is one of the … words. Its roots sink deep and stretch out far…There is a great moving force therein. A great moving force and yet again, only a lost sound. It is a [...]

I was speaking to Simon the other night and given his background – expat parents, international school, two passports, religion, friends living in geographically disparete places and so forth…- and my own multi-natonal background and movements around the world, we had a conversation on identity and home…and how we feel parts of lots of places: [...]

It has been said that you can never cross the same river twice. And that is true…and yet…It’s also been said that "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…" In Israel they have a phrase "eze seret?" "what movie [is this]?" to describe when things happen in your life [...]