Electric Feel

Yesterday I wrote about the need to teach young people to be able to prepare and design their lives for the age we live in. An example of how life moves on quickly and silently came in an interview with Mark Ronson that I read recently. Ronson talked of the music...

9 to 5

You could argue that the days of the 9 to 5 are over, as more and more people either work in their own businesses or longer hours for somebody else. I suggest we teach young people to be able to prepare and design their lives for the age we live in. Schools go part of...

Big Love

It’s easier to condemn that create, easier to break than build. So I encourage my kids to give generously. Rush-hour driving provides a decent example of why: it’s generosity that maintains the fluidity of roads at those times. It’s what keeps the...

Go Up – Butch remix

I’m pretty rubbish (like a lot of Brits) at self-promotion, hence the relatively low number of followers I have on social media. But do I regret moving, on Twitter, from my @Paul__Parry account, which has a few hundred followers, to my older @Pazza account,...

Copycat

If you Google the phrase using other people’s content you’ll see close to 14.5 billion search results, of which two types strike me immediately: Those talking about content curation Those warning against using other people’s content without the...