Detective. Fixer. Mentor. Writer.
North Devon
Joined April 2009
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40P Example: Principle 5, Merging - interweaving pedal steel and organ...
(one of the highlights of Boia Festival)...
youtube.com/watch?v=Sr0AN5ZT…
40P Example: Principle 12, Equipotentiality - 'I Am Both'... beautiful Margaret Glaspy re-invention...
youtube.com/watch?v=y8ovZgpE…
40P Example: Principle 8, AntiWeight - 'Don't Look Now, Satan's over there'... about an ex-boyfriend. Future of rock'n'roll 2026...
youtube.com/watch?v=X1bZlV6G…
40P Example: Principle 35, Parameter Change - Paul Rodgers makes everything his own...
youtube.com/watch?v=zpoPpZJJ…
T4D: 'The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.'
David Foster Wallace
40P Example: Principle 6, Universality - Nerina Pallot is all of Ace... (great fun in Torrington last night)...
youtube.com/watch?v=rmGiLAsb…
T4D: 'The known is finite, the unknown infinite: intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.'
Thomas Henry Huxley
#Innovation
40P Example: Principle 5, Merging - Don + Trisha...
Best Henley solo album?
youtube.com/watch?v=qQinnRFC…
T4D: 'Mediocristan is where we must endure the tyranny of the collective, the routine, the obvious, and the predicted; Extremistan is where we are subjected to the tyranny of the singular, the accidental, the unseen, and the unpredicted.'
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#Innovation
40P Example: Principle 13, The Other Way Around - Kathleen flips Tom...
youtube.com/watch?v=txH6DFf2…
T4D: When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.'
William Gibson
#Innovation
40P Example: Principle 17, Another Dimension - BVs
youtube.com/watch?v=DMxXt6MM…
40P Example: Principle 34, Discard & Recover - 1979 in 2026...
youtube.com/watch?v=ibWeepnv…
40P Example: Principle 38, Enriched Atmosphere - Los Lobos does Shakey... with added grunge...
youtube.com/watch?v=EunOC2JS…
40P Example: Principle 9, Prior Counteraction... ?
A Brief History of Philosophy:
• 375 BC: Plato is wrong
• 323 BC: Aristotle is wrong
• 311 BC: Epicurus is wrong
• 225 BC: Chrysippus is wrong
• 364 AD: Hypatia is wrong
• 413 AD: Augustine is wrong
• 1020 AD: Avicenna is wrong
• 1180 AD: Averroes is wrong
• 1250 AD: Aquinas is wrong
• 1320 AD: Ockham is wrong
• 1641 AD: Descartes is wrong
• 1675 AD: Spinoza is wrong
• 1739 AD: Hume is wrong
• 1781 AD: Kant is wrong
• 1807 AD: Hegel is wrong
• 1843 AD: Kierkegaard is wrong
• 1844 AD: Marx is wrong
• 1887 AD: Nietzsche is wrong
• 1903 AD: Russell is wrong
• 1921 AD: Wittgenstein is wrong
• 1927 AD: Heidegger is wrong
• 1966 AD: Foucault is wrong
T4D: ‘Success is 50% luck and the other 50% being lucky in riding your luck.’
Charles Saatchi
#Innovation
40P Example: Principle 35, Parameter Change - super-stretched version of Shiverman...
youtube.com/watch?v=N47KnuP8…
T4D: 'What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?'
Hermann Hesse
#Innovation