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The Olympics Should Have An Event For Sleeping
And Economics as a form of brain damage
04 August 2012
Charles Fox in Bloomsbury Square, with glittery hat
Bandana'd Beatles mural on New Oxford Street
The Olympics visible everywhere, though not oppressivelty so, particularly as I cycled past the Serpentine. Main nuisance is the fencing off of some of the key pedestrian crossings, which encourages some at times quite dangerous jay-walking, and not just by me.
Meanwhile, a sense of a new era dawning, partly because of the summer impressing itself on working rhythms, freeing up the creative juices, but mainly because of our new thinking evolving around Breakthrough Capitalism - which the entire team has been working on this past week.
Have been cycling whenever I can, to avoid the crowded Tube, though when I have taken the Underground it has generally been possible to find a seat and read. And the problem with cycling, particularly through Hyde park area, is the sheer number of people who are venturing forth for the first time on a Boris bike, and - by the look of them - for the first time on any sort of bike. All sorts of encounters around the city as I cycle, including Francis and Christine Kyle as I cycled through Maddox Street (where their gallery is located) yesterday.
The Guardian posted my blog on the Olmpics opening ceremony, which got a good deal of positive feedback. Due to other pressures, I recently asked to drop back to a fortnightly rhythm.
On Tuesday, I took the train to Oxford to speak at the Oxford University Business Economics Programme out at the Said Business School complex at Egrove Park, staying overnight. The after-dinner session went very well, despite my starting off by quoting Hazel Henderson's assertion that Economics can be viewed as a form of brain damage. Great to catch up with Jodie Thorpe, now at Oxfam, who worked at SustainAbility for 10 years, who was taking part in the summer school. Had an email saying that some of the participants were still talking about the theme as they took a train the next day.
Rest of the week mainly meetings (e.g. with Derek Handley and Maria Wu Kiskis from Richard Branson's new B-Team venture, and Morten Albaek from Vestas Wind Systems), my first Twitter conference, hosted by Susan McPherson of Fenton, and my latest round of columns and articles.
Otherwise, we have been racing to finish off the proposal for the next round of the Breakthrough Capitalism Program, which is just about good to go. Extent to which I have been stretching the elastic shown by fact that this afternoon I went for a rest - and slept over three hours.
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