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LATEST ARTICLES ( 24 )

• Vivid Festival Time!

  

  When K and I got back to Sydney after four years living overseas in April 2012, we weren’t aware of Vivid Festival beyond a few facebook updates noticed and the... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2014 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Pomodoro Jelly: Co-working at Home

  

  Since March I’ve been working from home full-time, with frequent trips to the city for meetings and events (it’s only 8 minutes on the train away). Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2014 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• A World of Changemakers

  

  Presenting at ConspireNYLife has been ridiculously busy lately and I’ve obviously let this blog go by the wayside for a bit. I hope to properly pick it up... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Discovering Rotation Curation Twitter Accounts

  

  In June 2008 I had a debate with my friend Anna Rose at a party in Washington DC. Twitter was going to be bigger than Facebook she insisted. Don’t be... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Ten Days of Ideas, Inspiration, Collaboration and Connection

  The Changemakers Festival is over for 2013. After 155 events in every state and territory attended by more than 5,000 people, and after personally attending 14... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• The Changemakers Festival is Here

  What an incredible feeling it was to open the Changemakers Festival at HUB Sydney on Friday night. Looking around at the smiling, supportive faces, and knowing... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2013 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• A Changing of the Guard (want to Join a Social Enterprise Startup?)

  

  Last week will be a historic moment for StartSomeGood, one way or another. One chapter has ended and a new one is beginning, pregnant with possibility, fraught... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2013 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• A Crowdfunder in the Household

  

  Kate grabbing a quick moment to work on her campaignMy wife Kate has been running a crowdfunding campaign on StartSomeGood over the last three weeks, to launch... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Living in a Bubble

  

  I’ll never forgot the republic referendum held in Australia in 1999.The polls had looked bad in the weeks leading up to the vote, with the combination of those... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• The Importance of Co-Founders

  

  If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go with others. Let height differences be no impediment to finding the right co-founder. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 BUSINESS, COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Welcome to the New StartSomeGood.com: It’s Time to Start More Good!

  

  I posted a more personal, reflective announcement about the new version of StartSomeGood.com here last week but for those of you know don’t subscribe to the... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Choosing the Worst Runner

  

  You are running coach, the analogy goes, and you have to choose between two runners. One of them has textbook form, smooth and efficient in his stride. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Teaching Our Kids What Matters

  

  So yesterday was the Oscars and Twitter was near-ruined for the day. So many tweets telling you no more than what you would be seeing happen on TV if you had... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 CELEB, COMMUNITY, FAMILY, PARENTING, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• The Agony of Entrepreneurship

  In November 2011 Ilya Zhitomirskiy, only 26 and one of the co-founders of Diaspora, the “open-source Facebook” which received notoriety after raising over... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2013 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Xxl

  

  When I was in Melbourne late last year I experienced a life milestone, and not of the good kind. Short on clothes due to my dedication to travelling with a... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 TRAVEL

• Themes for 2013

  

  Not quite the last sunset of 2012, but almost! We recently had our first holiday with Bodhi, ten days over in Western Australia catching up with my extended... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 TRAVEL

• Entrepreneurs, Markets and Investment

  

  A fascinating debate broke out yesterday, on Christmas Day in the US, between a number of prominent tech journalists, investors and founders, regarding the... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 TRAVEL

• December Already?

  

  The fact that it is December is kind of blowing my mind. This year has gone by at the most extraordinary pace, blurring together in my memory like the... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 TRAVEL

• Millenarianism and Politics

  

  One of my all-time favourite classes at university was “Prophets and Millenarian Movements in World History.” Millenarian movements are those that believe in th... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 TRAVEL

• Election Eve

  

  Watching the news today I saw highlights of Obama’s last rally of the campaign in Iowa and my mind flashed back to the same night four years earlier, the night... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2012 TRAVEL