Three days in the spectacular Derbyshire countryside with a bunch of clever, skillful doing and making people. Lots to digest, but for now here’s what I found in my notebook this morning…
- “simple single purpose things”
- learn > sell > make > record > learn >source > scale > repeat
- the circus printer
- Artefact cards + iPad + Gorillapod + projector
- “do the first hundred of everything”
- “a box of time and space”
- 7 primary smells
- perfumers as musicians
- “a ghost version of you that’s trapped in the Internet”
- “normcore”
- archives as “explicit notes to the future”
- “running on the smell of an oily rag”
- museum of meta-data
- loom bands :)
- instructional YouTube videos
- sharing friendship bracelets, sharing skills
- spoons!
- spoons for cooking easier than spoons for eating
- we can recognise more logos than plants
- “if you like how it sounds then you got it right for you”
- “it’s exciting making things to make with”
- “copying stops being copying”
- “the firm, not the start-up”
- things don’t have to be web scalable
- “reclaim small business as something to be proud of”
- “digital by default for everything else”
- Transatlantic cables cut up and sold by Tiffany
- “the cloud is a lie”
- “Internet of things of the network”
- Earth return
- “locus of confusion”
- “bits of the world that were obstacles become part of the solution”
- test-driven development as evolution
- “start-ups don’t have to be evil”
- activities that become nouns instead of verbs
- “dealing with variance and difference”
Thanks to Russell, Greg and Matt for making it happen and to everyone there for making it brilliant.
More follows.
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