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I attended the NE Business Awards Final the Thursday before I started work.\u00a0 On the way to the awards dinner, we appointed Paul the Visiting Interim Professor of ambiguity. \u00a0 Paul Campbell is an entrepreneur.\u00a0 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\/<\/a>. They provide a platform for new music.\u00a0 The music is uploaded by artists and then played.\u00a0 It is also sold from their tunes store and when that happens, the artists get 100%. \u00a0His business makes money through other avenues and in this the business model is honouring of the creative impulse.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n He said it perfectly.\u00a0 \u201cIn my business I am following the logic\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n Business of this nature which probably would not have done well in terms of a \u201cproper\u201d business case at the start.\u00a0 It seems to have benefited from passion, ability and then the willingness to follow the logic.\u00a0 It must be said that he probably drives the logic ahead of himself a little just so that he can follow it.<\/p>\n The Challenge:<\/strong> When he discovered that I had been teaching knitting at my children\u2019s school as a volunteer \u00a0\u2013 and my theories around it, how it encourages project thinking, personal capability, how it showed me many and varied ways of learning \u2013\u00a0 learning styles if you will \u2013 \u00a0in children and showed me that everybody can learn to knit \u2013 he set me a challenge.\u00a0 Can I teach someone to knit using just audio?\u00a0 Well can I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" minus 4 days I attended the NE Business Awards Final the Thursday before I started work.\u00a0 On the way to the awards dinner, we appointed Paul the Visiting Interim Professor of ambiguity. \u00a0 Paul Campbell is an entrepreneur.\u00a0 He is the founder and head honcho, the man who calls the shots as he sees them … Continue reading The Visiting Interim Professor of Ambiguity<\/span>