minus 4 days

I attended the NE Business Awards Final the Thursday before I started work.  On the way to the awards dinner, we appointed Paul the Visiting Interim Professor of ambiguity.   Paul Campbell is an entrepreneur.  He is the founder and head honcho, the man who calls the shots as he sees them at digital radio station, http://amazingradio.co.uk/. They provide a platform for new music.  The music is uploaded by artists and then played.  It is also sold from their tunes store and when that happens, the artists get 100%.  His business makes money through other avenues and in this the business model is honouring of the creative impulse.  Amazing Radio is expanding to the US and South America and he said something that made perfect sense, one of those phrases that when I hear it I realise that it makes sense of many bits of my thinking.

He said it perfectly.  “In my business I am following the logic”. 

Business of this nature which probably would not have done well in terms of a “proper” business case at the start.  It seems to have benefited from passion, ability and then the willingness to follow the logic.  It must be said that he probably drives the logic ahead of himself a little just so that he can follow it.

The Challenge: When he discovered that I had been teaching knitting at my children’s school as a volunteer  – and my theories around it, how it encourages project thinking, personal capability, how it showed me many and varied ways of learning –  learning styles if you will –  in children and showed me that everybody can learn to knit – he set me a challenge.  Can I teach someone to knit using just audio?  Well can I?