Recent videos of chance encounters with starlings, eagles and whales highlight a growing global population and the increased capture of that population on video. Will the amassing of recorded history remove the need for faith? Or will the volume of knowledge make us humbly realise that we can never know all there is to know?

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I attended an evening launch of Dreamworld’s new BuzzSaw ride last week. Spinning around at 105 kmh, I calmly considered the innovation necessary to get me in the seat.  As I stumbled away on shaking legs, I asked the question: “Is innovation all about big exciting rides, or is there more?” The look on my face during the event also reminds me that innovation is not for the faint of heart.

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It is usually the player who determines whether a game is boring.  After five months of playing, I find it is Foursquare that makes such a judgement on the player’s life.  I have also discovered how meaningless that judgement really is.

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Every man invents a story for himself – which he often, and with great cost to himself – takes to be his life. ~Max Frisch, 1972

Our stories define for us meaning and identity, or so proposes the viewpoint of narrative psychology.  This is something to consider as we share our lives in the open forum of social media.

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I was a ten years old when I first saw the tire swing diagram hanging on the wall of the family printed circuit board manufacturing company.  I wondered in my naivety how each party could get communication so wrong.  Decades later, I have answered my question countless times through my own contribution to mismatched swings.

My experiences have also developed my fundamental belief in Covey’s fifth habit, articulated within the digital agency as: “no one wants a website”.

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I was recently asked the question about my profile picture: “why a cartoon?” My response takes me on a journey through options not chosen and an analysis of the choices of others.

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Social media played a huge part in the response efforts for the recent Queensland floods.  Reflecting back at the amount of time I spent glued to my iPhone, I wonder if the medium plays too large a part in our lives?

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The non-commercial My Pizza Personality project set out to see if pizza purchasers are concerned about the environment, and whether environmental people eat pizza.  While we wait for that answer, check out which group is most likely to pass on your message.

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A month and over 600 responses into the My Pizza Personality project and my disillusionment with Twitter has solidified like congealed cheese.  After weeks of selling any self-respect in 140 characters or less, I now have a bad taste in my mouth.  However, that won’t stop me from going back for seconds with the thought that the next bite might be different.

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I recently launched www.mypizzapersonality.com to help you find your inner pizza and to help me answer a very critical question.  This is the story behind the project.

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