Paul Miller

I’ve just finished reading Katharine Hibbert’s book Free: Adventures on the margins of a wasteful society and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a great piece of journalism, along the lines of Nickel and Dimed, where Katharine lives the life herself to get a level of depth and detail that wouldn’t be possible otherwise. The premise behind the [...]

It was on the tip of everybody’s tongue, Matt Biddulph just gave it a name. Silicon Roundabout has actually been thriving for over a decade, with hundreds if not thousands of digital businesses in the East End starting up, thriving, failing and starting up again. I’m a fan of the Government’s idea of a tech [...]

This is roughly what I said at Be Bettr on Friday 14th January 2011 at the Conway Hall in London. Thanks to Matt Jukes for organising! 1) When we hear the word education most of us think of a classroom, of a teacher standing at the front, of kids sitting at rows of desks. Perhaps [...]

One of my favourite reads of 2010 was Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants. The idea at the heart of the book is that technology’s evolution is inevitable and even predictable and that our future as the human race is bound up with the direction that it takes. Kelly traces all technology in a long historical arc [...]

I’ve just finished reading Clay Shirky’s excellent book Cognitive Surplus. It took me a while, not because Clay is a difficult writer to read (he’s not), but because I’ve found myself reading books less and less. In my mind, I haven’t had time to read but the truth is probably more that I’ve been distracted [...]

I’m useless at going to the gym. I’ve been a member of various schemes over the years – most recently I was spending about £40 a month and going, well, erm, let’s just say not very often. So I’ve stopped the direct debit and joined the Good Gym instead. Back in December 2008 we picked [...]

A few months back Russell Davies emailed and asked if I’d be interested in occasionally meeting up with other people who run small businesses for a bit of mutual aid and support. I replied and said that every now and then there was nothing I liked more than a good natter about accounting. Well what [...]