I’ve just had the best time being in New York for the fabulous 99U conference. I wil post the video of the talk when it’s ready but in the meantime here are the slides I used. It was the first major public outing of our new Mindfulness Everywhere colour palette and typography (Commercial Type’s Graphik set) so it was nice …
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Dear Aleks & Ben, I’m writing a book
Dear Aleks & Ben, I doubt you remember but we first met when taking coffee at Bar Italia in Soho. It was a spring afternoon in 2012 and so we did the continental thing and sat on the pavement and watched the various worlds go by. We spoke about technology, the mind, mindfulness and more. You had both tried the first version …
Calling all mindful angels
So buddhify won its first award this week. After being shortlisted for the Europe-wide Lovie awards earlier this month, we won app of the year at the Scottish Digital Business Awards. It was a lovely night and actually the first time the Glasgow-based team had the chance to celebrate what has been a pretty good year – sales have been …
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Moving Beyond Digital Detox & The Organic Web
At the recent SXSW Interactive festival, I was fortunate enough to be part of a panel together with Lauren Bacon. The title of our session was Beyond Unplugging and at its heart was a simple but important idea. Recent years has seen the rise in popularity of the Digital Detox – taking time away from our devices and our information streams as a strategy to deal …
Today is the launch of buddhify 2
I am delighted to announce that today sees the launch of buddhify 2 for iPhone/iPad. I was very moved and delighted by the response to the first buddhify and I wanted to take the learning and experience from that and just put out a new product which had a chance of being the best meditation app ever made. And it’s …
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buddhify 2 is coming, 2013 leaving
Today I heard that buddhify 2 has been approved by Apple, which means that it is now sitting behind the scenes in iTunes ready for the formal launch in early January. As a micro-publisher – you have to take the risk of there being a few ‘single points of failure’ in your production process and that has meant that we’re …
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Joining the board of the British Council
[Image from the Mission2062 workshop I produced for the British Council back in March 2012 in Paris, courtesy of Suzy Glass] It has been announced today that I am to join the board of the British Council with immediate effect. For those of you you don’t know the British Council, it is a large scale NGO which promotes Britain internationally through …
The three strategies towards a mind-positive relationship with technology
Technology and the mind is on my mind. As an issue, it’s one who’s existence can feel a luxury. It can be easy to throw up one’s hands in mock horror and lament privileged iPad-wielding classes struggling to cope with the stresses of their self-constructed digital trappings and classing it all under the category of #firstworldproblems. I however caution against …
Appearance on BBC Radio4’s Digital Human
This week I appeared in the Digital Human episode called Isolation (S2 E5) in which I say some clever things about technology and the mind. It’s a great show and much fun to do. You can hear it here.
Wired World In 2013 – my article for the Wired trends special issue
After penning a piece in the December issue of Wired UK, I have also written for Wired’s exciting World in 2013 issue. You can read a PDF of the piece by clicking the image above but if you want to get the full magazine – which I genuinely recommend since it covers some insights of things to come in lifestyle, …
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