The Australian Shoots Itself In The Foot

November 3, 2011

Slowly. Update: I received an email from The Australian’s editor Chris Mitchell explaining that sign-ups in the first 8 days had met their expectations (and to be fair, the numbers he shared were pretty good). He admitted the flow was cumbersome but reiterated how engaged users were with the paper across all platforms. +++ The [...]

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The Art of the Trade-Off

November 1, 2011

“One burner represents your family, one is your friends, the third is your health, and the fourth is your work. In order to be successful you have to cut off one of your burners. And in order to be really successful you have to cut off two.” - David Sedaris If you invest time and energy [...]

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Floss The Teeth You Want To Keep: How To Do A TEDx Talk

October 14, 2011

Preparation In May, my friend Noel invited me to speak at TEDx Darwin. I said yes before he had time to finish his sentence. I think I was asked because I had some digital/technological profile through Native, Hunted, Boxee etc. and Darwin is pretty short on that kind of thing. I had no idea what I’d [...]

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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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