Acme Ideas

The longest week of the year, this one, thanks to the summer solstice and it felt like a lot was packed into the week. Lots of interesting plotting, literal and metaphoric, and an idea so good that I might have to patent it. Perhaps it's doing so much bus travel that has got the creative juices flowing. 

graphing idea

Some colleagues and I attended a workshop about digital reading with some smart people who asked us some smart questions. My colleagues and I argued about the smart questions and our (not so) smart answers for the cab ride back to the office and for 30minutes afterwards. We couldn't agree on the business we are in, which seems to be an interesting place to begin a new project from. As Frank Chimero says, quoted by Russell Davies, "We break stuff before we know what replaces it and we invent things before we know what they are for."

The idea-so-good-it-should-be-patented has been approved by everyone who matters apart from the one person who really matters which will or will not happen in the next couple of days and then, hopefully, it will have to be made, which is of course the good bit. After what feels like weeks of slog, immersed in the hard details of tough projects, it feels nice to have had a good, simple creative idea which has a good chance of actually happening.

Caledonian Road, before Ger 4 Eng 1

Other than that, it has been good and hot, the world cup has been on (but for you Fabio, the war is over), Adam and Joe are temporarily back on the radio and some running, swimming, barbecuing, drinking and playing has been done. A good week, with the hope of an even better one upcoming.