Consumers v Creators Have you seen the Disney/Pixar movie WallE? It's about a cute robot who is left on earth to clean up the awful mess humans have left behind. Meanwhile, the humans that left earth float round in a spaceship courtesy of a corporation, developed into overweight slobs, plugged into screens showing them endless advertisements, holographic announcements, and social updates from the Buy n Large corporation. The constant screen time keeps passengers distracted and buying useless...

Think back to the first time you used the internet. The first time you actually used it, then kept using it every day without ever deciding to. For most of us there are years between those two moments. Mine started in 1996, in a college computer room with a friend about to 'go on the internet' for the first time.Neither of us knew what to look for. We decided to look at a book we were already reading. (Mr Nice FYI) There was no Google. Mobile phones were for businessmen. 1998. I made money...

She found me. I don’t know how, but she did. Diane. I few weeks ago I told you about my encounter in a hot tub with an elderly lady. Beneath the Bali stars and in the volcanic spring water, the conversation didn't feel like a chance encounter. It seemed like our paths were meant to cross, at that exact moment, to create a moment. A moment significant enough that I wrote to you about it, and significant enough to Diane to track me down a few weeks later. What she shared will remain between us....