Your Number One Priority

October 10, 2011

DB. I’ve been in a state of transition lately and under higher than usual levels of stress and pressure. About a month ago, I went a week without exercise. Reflecting on this, I realised how hypocritical it was. I think living healthier is the single biggest accelerator we could apply to improving society today. But here [...]

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Getting Good At Cities

August 26, 2011

Every week from now until 2050, more than a million people will be added to the global ‘city’ population. In 2006 more than 50% of the world’s population was urbanised. This number will rise to 75% by 2050. Getting good at cities (GGAC)  is a skill that’s going to matter more and more. It’s a [...]

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How I Run: The Darwin Method

August 9, 2011

Do not duplicate, apparently. The Darwin Method is the running training program I did from March until June (about 16 weeks). I was running once or twice a week while living in the US but took most of February off due to travel and work so when I started this program, I was in average [...]

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Australia the Gentle Utopia

July 13, 2011

Australia is the gentle utopia. Having lived in nearly every Australian city, having grown up and lived in small towns, and having lived in good cities around the world (South and North America, Europe, the Middle East), I’ve never developed enough of a connection with a place to forget how to judge it as an [...]

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Running: You’re doing it wrong.

June 24, 2011

Having trained 4 times a week for the last 4 months and broken some reasonable personal running barriers (the 2.10-800 and the sub-20 minute 5k), I’ve realised that there’s something wrong with running. The endurance obsession. At some point in the last two or three decades, the marathon became the centrepiece of the amateur running [...]

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“Explain your current situation to 5-years-ago you.”

June 15, 2011

Mate. I know you think spending all that time on the internet obsessing about music feels like a waste, but it’ll all make sense soon. Don’t beat yourself up for procrastinating on Pitchfork and Hype Machine instead of studying, just keep exploring your obsession. This is going to sound funny, but it’s going to take [...]

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What it feels like to run 800m.

May 12, 2011

I’ve previously written about what it feels like to do a triathlon. Last night I ran in an 800m race at the Arafura Games. I finished about 80m behind the winner in dead last but ran 7s faster than my previous best. So it might have looked like a big loss but it felt like [...]

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The Australian Space Fallacy

April 27, 2011

The image above is taken at Charles Darwin University, from the main courtyard, between the refectory and the library. That grassy area takes up more than the size of a football field and most days, the beautiful green grass is bathed in sunshine. You can imagine the architect’s original designs envisioning students throwing frisbees and [...]

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The Destructive Web

March 30, 2011

“The web has eroded the barriers protecting traditional businesses without improving the competitive position of even one incumbent.” — ‘What Matters in the Media‘, by Jeremy Philips. I’ve been thinking about this concept of the web eroding barriers lately. I recently revisited Chris Dixon’s article from a little over a year ago – ‘Why the [...]

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The Frictionless Life

March 18, 2011

Reposting this from the Native blog. It seems strange How we used to wait for letters to arrive But what’s stranger still Is how something so small can keep you alive – Arcade Fire – ‘We Used To Wait’ I’m one of the last generation who grew up knowing what it was to wait for [...]

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