I’ll be thinking about this “Rebooting the Blogosphere” idea for a while. Interesting that the provocation for this thinking is FB “exile” – it reminds me of the energy that gets released whenever a platform goes down or otherwise goes awry – the energy of “I’ve got to find an outlet for these impulses in … Continue reading Wednesday, 1st October 2025→| Perfect Path
Stephanie Booth has written a really useful three-part series on "Rebooting The Blogosphere" (activities | interaction | integration) – check it out. I identify with a lot of the reflections and ways of thinking about writing in public that Steph's pulled together. I also feel the enormity of it as a project – we've strayed so … Continue reading Tuesday, 30th September 2025→| Perfect Path
I’d done a day’s work before breakfast this morning. Thanks Geena! I have to apologise for the LinkedIn-esque final remarks, after a lifetime of thought-leadership and lessons-learned reviews, I just can’t help myself. Investigations continue, I may have to remove this post later subject to legal action by the accused and her lawyer.| Perfect Path
I have recurring frustration with the state of the web. I still have a utopian dream and attachment to people using open tools rather than the (semi-)closed platforms to publish their work and knowledge and thinking. On one level, this is a purely selfish desire. I would rather have one place to go to see … Continue reading Monday, 29th September 2025→| Perfect Path
First morning with the heating on (min temperatures overnight are around 7 or 8ºC). It feels like magic. I think it's the memory of when we first moved to a house with central heating (on November 5th 1975). It felt like real luxury, not to wake up under blankets in a cold room, having to … Continue reading Wednesday, 24th September 2025→| Perfect Path
In bizarrely synchronistic news, I was reminded last night of the Librivox project, my first (and only) contribution to which, I published here twenty years ago tomorrow… I came across it aga…| Perfect Path
I spent yesterday back at Conway Hall. I'm trying to think of other things I've done there other than Interesting (which I helped Russell with for the first three years and which I then attended a couple of times?) There was The Story that Matt Locke did. I feel like there must be other things … Continue reading Friday, 12th September 2025→| Perfect Path
Today would have been my Dad’s 88th birthday (two fat ladies – 88!). He was 2 years old when WW2 started. When I was 2 (and three quarters) it was his 30th birthday and I recently found a recording of him and me “talking” on that day. If I can find it again easily (it’s … Continue reading Wednesday, 3rd September→| Perfect Path
Overheard in a medical setting: “Have you brought a urine sample?” “No, I couldn’t because I don’t have a wotsit” me: eyes widening… and trying not to look…| Perfect Path
Pinch, punch, first of the month (no returns!) I picked this up when I went to see the memorial to Nick at St Bride’s a couple of months ago. It has sat on my desk since then and this morning…| Perfect Path
Oof! This is the question that formed the basis of yesterday's "Unreasonable Connection". It's a lot more direct than I heard it in the room! The breakout group that I was part of, talked mostly about running events and dealing with such events "not working" in some way – usually evidenced by the feeling that … Continue reading What performative gestures are killing real community in your space?→| Perfect Path
On Friday, it’ll be 34 years since I first became a father. It’s the role I’ve played most consistently (if not always brilliantly) in this lifetime. Since then that t…| Perfect Path
I spoke yesterday at the Workplace Trends conference in London. The overall theme was Designing for Inclusion. Neil Usher (a confirmed, but lately absent, tuttler) got together a dozen fine people …| Perfect Path
After breakfast, but before coffee, I went up the garden to see whether we have a couple of folding chairs in the kind of shed/cupboard thing that's on level 3. Our garden is cut into a steep hill. If you count our downstairs as level 0 then my studio is on level 1 and it … Continue reading Wandering into the web→| Perfect Path
What does it mean to gather around "regrowing a living culture"? I've been using that phrase to talk about the monthly coffee mornings I'm doing in London and I thought it might be worth going back to where I picked the phrase up. Late in 2023, my friends Dougald and Anna ran a course with … Continue reading Coffee Mornings and “regrowing a living culture”→| Perfect Path
I need to blog more. I need to write more, but I also need to release more and this is the best place I have for doing that. I caught myself giving someone feedback on their work which was really an expression of my frustration with not feeling productive myself. It's not enough to apologise … Continue reading Tuesday, 6th May 2025→| Perfect Path
This was just sitting waiting to be published for almost 55 years. Those who’ve heard my more recent (ie since 2004) podcasting will recognise the roots of my presenting style. As far as I can tell, it was recorded on the same day as the picture was taken. Script assistance by “Mummy”. Sound Engineer: “Daddy”. … Continue reading Very first audioblog (20th April 1970)→| Perfect Path
I’m on the train to London and trying out Wordland on my iPad. All seems good. The editor box is left-aligned rather than centred, but I can live with that – maybe it’s an update that I haven’t noticed because I haven’t logged out on my desktop machine yet 🙂 I’m doing another round of … Continue reading Friday, 7th March 2025→| Perfect Path
Ugh, the end of last week and the weekend were wiped out by norovirus. No more details necessary. I think there’s a long-running series that will emerge here called “I’m not retired but…” because although I’m still doing lots of interesting work, I also have started taking my Audit Commission pension which doesn’t even pay … Continue reading Wednesday, 5th March 2025→| Perfect Path
When I was a kid, you'd see people who lived with paralysis or muscle-weakness as a result of contracting polio. The vaccine was first introduced in the UK in the mid-fifties and by the time I was born, at the end of 1964, we were all getting it on sugar cubes. So when I asked … Continue reading Thursday, 27th February 2025→| Perfect Path
Another day, another new app. Today I saw that Flashes is available in the iOS app store. It is supposed to be to Bluesky what Insta is to Threads, kind of. But it doesn't have a separate timeline – so if I post a picture with the app using my main bsky account all of … Continue reading Tuesday , 25th February 2025→| Perfect Path
Dipping a toe into the Wordland water. It's warmer than expected. The first thing I notice is nothing to do with the product itself, rather how ugly and cluttered my WordPress template has become. It's one of those things you don't like to think about too much. I made it less cluttered, but it still … Continue reading Monday, 24th February 2025→| Perfect Path
Dear friends, here we are again. Another long but short but ordinary but weird week. Quote of the week “Any jackass can kick a barn down. But it takes a carpenter to build one” – Sam Rayburn Doodle of the week What’s on my mind Heartbeats The group I was part of at Hard Art … Continue reading Newsletter 25-03→| Perfect Path
Dear friends and neighbours near and far, prepare yourselves for the shock of a second newsletter before the end of January. Doodle of the week Quote of the week “Boundaries are what we tell someone we will do, they don’t require the other person to do anything”. Dr Becky Kennedy talking about parent/child relationships in … Continue reading Newsletter 25-02→| Perfect Path
The situation: after 4½ years of pandemic-encouraged working from home, organisations are still trying to get people back into the office and it’s still not working. #tuttlela – folk in…| Perfect Path
I'm the founder of the Tuttle Club and fascinated by organisation. I enjoy making social art and building communities.| Perfect Path
We did it again on Friday morning. Sorry if you wanted to come but didn’t see a reminder. It seems (to me) to be working, whatever it is and whatever it’s supposed to be for. I realised today for …| Perfect Path
I was going to write something on Facebook, but Nick was a blogger and so this belongs here. I heard this afternoon that my dear friend Nick Booth died yesterday after a fall at the weekend. ItR…| Perfect Path
