School of Everything features in the Guardian’s Elevator Pitch today with a few snippets about what we’re trying to do and a photo of the five co-founders taken by Joe Lee. He tried his best… but there was only so much he could do with the subject material
Long Now London Meetup
I’ve been hanging out with Scott and the gang at Meetup a bit recently and remembering what a fantastic tool it is for getting people together. So I’ve set up a Long Now London Meetup group to try and get people interested in long-term thinking and the work of the Long Now Foundation together. Do come along for a drink and a chat if you [...]
Social Innovation Camp – thanks!
So Social Innovation Camp is over and I think we can already say that it was a riproaring success. Congratulations to winners Enabled by Design and runners up RateYourPrison. All the teams did an amazing job considering we gave them about 42 hours to try and build a new social start-up including a working prototype of their sites. When Dan, Christian and I cooked up [...]
School of Everything investment announced
So the word is out. We’ve just announced our first round of investment for School of Everything. There are all kinds of funny stories associated with our hunt for the right investors. 10 Downing Street, wearing the wrong kind of trousers, facebook stalking and a tank just for starters. I can’t begin to tell you how much we’ve learned. The overall lesson for me though [...]