‘Mastery passes often for egotism.’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe    Many mistakes have been made in history. Just two of the most extraordinary cases: It took 177 years to build the Tower of Pisa, but it started to lean just a few years after construction began, as it was built on unstable soil.   In 1961, Decca Records auditioned The Beatles and decided they wouldn’t sell a record. They signed instead Little Tony, an Italian-born Sammarinese pop star and actor. ... [More]

A few days ago I was talking to a friend about the potential of Pinterest. I was in a “Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 mood”, going from Allegro to Maestoso, glorifying the role of inspiration in this (often visionless) world, singing the praises of visual content and colours and mood boards like a young and inspired Pavarotti, thrilled by the future of “social”. My friend pulled a bored/ not impressed/ thinking-about-the-laundry kind of face, then said ‘Don’t know what you&... [More]