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Let Go – Simply Letting Things Happen and ‘Down Time’
Are Simplicity and Starting a Startup Compatible? The answer… honestly – No, not really. This is a really beautiful opinion piece in the NYT about those people who say they’re ‘busy’ whenever you speak...
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A PhD in Twitter
I did this interview Bill Lampos for 3Desk. It wasn’t really meant for Simpletom, but I loved the way Bill was honest and modest and seemed to embody simplicity, so I thought I’d share (shortened to be...
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Time and Time Again
My friend Tim, who has a wholly different take on Time. We think he may have dropped an ‘e’ I’m reminded, as I tickle life into my new project - 3Desk - that things always take way more time than I...
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Real Apple
I am running, or at least starting, a technology business. Which means I’m trying to stay abreast of the technological ‘news’, if you can call it that. These last weeks, highly respected tweeters have...
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Way in West
It has been 8 months since I headed out West, from London to Bristol. In the last 4 weeks, life has pulled me to London, Greece, Turkey and Kenya (peripateticism still reigns). However, despite being...
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Simple Momentum
What I’ve learned about simplicity. … The end. Sometimes if feels a bit like nothing has changed. The reasons I first embarked on this simpletomiam mission are still as present as ever in my little...
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How Many People Could You Call At 3am? On Richness
I read this article today, where Jeff Haden explains some of the reasons why you aren’t happy. Before we start, tweet the author and tell him his article made you a little happier if you like it. That...
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Intra-ordinary
Congratulations, you’re very ordinary. As I sit and write this, I overlook a tropical lagoon, mangroves and a few fishermen warming in the morning sun. A few energetic swifts wheel in a faint haze –...
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Why Standing Still is Better Than Movement
My friend Pete, taking some time out from a group holiday to just sit and write… We are who we are. No matter how hard we try, we’re unlikely a Damascene moment will transform us into the person we’d...
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Harder, Faster, Dumber
A trip I took down the Mangoky river in Madagascar. Harder for this guy than it was for me… A friend just asked me if I wanted to do an ironman or an ultra marathon with him. Erm. No thanks. I remember...
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Trapped in Escapism
SimpleTom in flight… One of the wonders of the modern world is opportunity. As an entrepreneur, I’m continually excited by what is possible. Aided by lightning fast connectivity, jet engines, computing...
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Adulescence
(or the art of Growing Down) A previous, very silly, birthday Yesterday was my birthday. I was dressed as a ninja cow at a festival, squeezed into a west-country barn full of ‘Almost Farmous’...
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It’s OK
Hmmm… I am currently here, but I’m about to move back to San Francisco whilst wanting to settle here, where I’m trying to to buy a house. Well done Simpletom… you’re managing, quite dedicatedly, to...
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Work Like it’s the Weekend
I’ve no idea who this is, but I like his setup… and his painting Over the last month I’ve been living in a van in Silicon Valley, more on that here and here. I’ll post some adventures soon on...
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Not Me
It is… most of the time [Sorry, a little behind posting this...] It’s New Year’s Day and I have a splitting headache. It’s a year to the day that I split up with my girlfriend. That wasn’t a good day....
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I’m Busy, You’re Unimportant
“This week’s really busy”. “Sorry I’m slammed at the moment”. “We’re manic”.”It’s crazy”. I get about 100 emails every week with something that let’s me know that me that the sender is really very...
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Sleepathon
A few months ago I wrote this ‘open letter’. The response was amazing and I’d like to see if I can make this event happen in September in San Francisco – so I wanted to repost this here and then I’ll...
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San Francisco Sleepathon… is coming!
Majesty and Misery A few months ago I was compelled to write an ‘open letter’ (http://bit.ly/1dkuwcA). I suggested I’d organise a ‘sleepathon’ in San Francisco in aid of the homeless. The response has...
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Burned Man
At the end of the summer I made my first pilgrimage to Burning Man. It had sat resolutely on my bucket list for a few years and finally it was happening. The Burn has always appealed for a number of...
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