Ed Dowding

• @Rtyrie WOW!!!! Congratulations!!!!! #
• man I hate waiting for the internet… I may have to go live in Singapore. Or perhaps Sri Lanka, but for different reasons. Or France. Hmm. #
• I need a mentor! Anyone with business acumen care to trade 10h of PA time per wk for a few hours a fortnight of advice and sanity checks? #

• http://tinyurl.com/47cyyc #
• just made a loaf of soda rye. all hail good food and agas. #
• @tomboardman so disqualified yet? my hearing’s on the 9th December. #
• @tomboardman Pleaded guilty for ease, but they’ve adjourned. Last time I courted I was fined extra for citing my disbelief out loud… #

In no particular order:

Get a base with space.
Be fit & healhty.
Read more.
Paraglide more.
Get married, have children.
Make the world better.
Save the environment.
Write a book on better business models.
Prepare for Armageddon.
Work out how the Californians are so bouncy.
Culture the meme that >2 children is socially unacceptable.
Promote the installation of drinking fountains.

• @alexhoye and @amandita I have a few PR you might be interested in. mail me@eddowding.com and I’ll send some intros. #
• @girlonetrack @amandita would tell you to get your PA on that… want to trial one? #

I’ve been reading Nudge of late. It’s a book about rational man (doesn’t really exist) vs irrational man (does exist, is us). To
demonstrate these points it presents a few examples and mental exercises to show how we should behave vs how we do behave. And in each of these I choose the rational answer. Which is odd, because I’m also deeply irrational at times.

This pattern will come as no surprise to friends and former girlfriends, and also makes me realise why I’ve spent so much time
reading books like “How to win friends and influence people” and other books on psychology and social psychology in a bid to understand more of how and why people operate as we do. I’m reminded that a number of people have told me I’m an Asperger’s candidate.

Anyway there’s my insecure exposure for the day. What I meant to say was that “Nudge” is pretty interesting.

A great video from Avaaz about helping America be mindful of its unique and hard-won position in the world:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/for_all_of_us/?cl=139960524&v=2321

• @coupde Precedent is our specs for laws, and the drafters try to make it cover all bases. seems like we could do better though, doesn’t it? #

• http://london.pledgebank.com/no2freepapers #

I guess it’s not illegal to link to this if someone else is hosting it: http://pathfindercoaching.org/Documents/happiness_hypothesis_haidt_e.pdf

I’ve recommended this book before, and will do again, so take the opportunity to grab the summary whilst you can.

• @basv iphones are overrated! #
• @basv iphone: hard to type on, battery dies if used at all, and generally too much “apple knows best” going on IMO #
• @bazv you were asking about samsung omnias and iphones…no? or have i confused myself with twitter again… sigh… forgive idiocy..! #
• there must be someway of doing updates in skype that emulate twitter.. thus instantly snaffling millions more users than twitter, no? #