Love this! NDG is the original confusionist!
Confusionism
Confusionism is a discussion space for a new breed of thinker // We exist in the space between the known and the unknown! We are not afraid because we EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY an understand that CONFUSION WILL MAKE US SMARTER!
Richard Running Bear Buchanan
ABOUT ME
BLOGS I READ
Rough Type Scripting Murcof Max Keiser Nick Bostrom Buzz Machine Wolfram Alpha Venus Project Crack Unit Nitmesh Umair Haque
@TheBuchanans BROOKLYN feat. @JesusMiAmor. This is a serious anthem http://youtu.be/D24-bQOJwPE
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This is where I make stuff music, web project, writing, art, whatever. I am soon to be leaving this desk and white wall, so I thought I should remember it with a photograph.
Here is the latest track from my new electronic music project PLAZA HOTEL. The track is called “HOLD YOUR BREATH!” - I call the style Horror House. Hope you enjoy!
The trouble with me and why the future of business isn’t going to come from MBA’s in fancy business schools. (Part 1)
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him… The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself… All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw
People are going to think I am crazy for saying this, but, I am ready to admit it. I am a terrible employee, actually, I think I am un-hireable. If you gave me a full-time job in a corporation on your terms, well, I would probably screw it up royally! Not through malice or lack of ability but because the role would eventually seem pointless to me and I would get bored and lose focus.
Believe me, I have often wondered why I am so bad at working in big company’s. It’s troubled me for a long time. I have been advised that “I should just knuckle down and take it, and in 3 years I would be earning six figures”. I just never felt like a big company was the place for me to do something I actually cared about. In order to “just take it” I am going to need a bigger reason than a nice car,a big TV and a nice steak dinner once a week.
Right now, I am by no means a success, I am broke and moving back in with my parents to continue working on Bfore.me. I can take it, I am not embarassed. I can take it because I believe in what I am doing, and if I believe in what you are doing, well lets chat, lets take tougher road together. It’s easier when you can share your troubles and also more pleasurable when you share spoils too.
It’s taken me 31 years but I think I may have figured it out. The trouble with me, is very simple. If you put me in a rigid system I will try to break it, alter it, to take risks with it and bored out of my mind, probably abuse it (mostly the photo-copier and stationary cupboard). It’s not my fault, really. I think it’s an illness!
I have found that big companies or small companies with entrenched management, don’t very much appreciate a young person coming along and telling them they could try it another way. In fact, I have found in my time that alot of people actually hate change and probably hated me for pointing it out and I was often put in the corner, labelled a trouble maker.
Why is that? Well, I put it down to the security in bureaucracy and protection of power dynamics. Red tape enables people to manage change at a pace they understand. Why? Simply so that they stay on top. I respect that now, but for a long time I didn’t and that often got me and my big mouth into a lot of trouble. The thing is the worlds changing faster than ever. if you want to change fast, don;t work in a big company! SIMPLE!
I am undisciplined and I don’t respect the status quo. For a long time I was told this was the wrong way to be. That I was never going to get that payrise, promotion, never going to get that office. I guess that would matter to me if I cared about those medals of success. I don’t care about those things. After engaging with the start up community I realise that these unruly traits are valuable to business and it seems that I was just applying myself to the wrong problems or the wrong part of the business cycle.
I feel that we are living in a formidable times, everything is changing, almost anything is up for debate. The people with capital are taking risks, are saying, you want to change that, here go try! It’s exciting.
I have always felt like I was a lone wolf, a socially awkward outsider, but through working on Bfore.me, after meeting other founders, entreprenuers and searching for advice on running a start up. I have found that we are many and we are everywhere. The undisciplined, the disrespectful, the irrelevant, the unreasonable, the troublemakers, the doers, the dreamers. We are all the things risk averse people in safe secure jobs tell themselves and their children not to be. Wether it’s because of their education, family, childhood, self-image, ego, fear of failure or whatever - they stand on the sidelines maybe hoping you’ll make it, maybe hoping you won’t!
We are not bettter, or worse. We are just different, uncomfortable in the now always looking to the next. We see change and chaos as preferable to doing the same thing over and over again because it works. We want everything to better because we know, from history that it can be, and usually the world is better for the endeavour!
Don’t be afraid to be unreasonable, or act outside of social norms, todays social restriction is tomorrows liberation. Ignoring the rules for a while might just be the one thing that actually saves the world! (part 2 coming soon!)
We have started a new pop up restaurant called popupdogs - We are holding our first event in F.Cookes pie and mash restaurant - You can sign up for the event on our facebook page _ please come along it’ll be a lot of fun.
HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis
If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren’t okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find it’s fine to be alone once you’re embracing it.
We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You’re not supposed to talk much anyway so it’s safe there.
There’s also the gym. If you’re shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke).
And there’s public transportation, because we all gotta go places.
And there’s prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you’re hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation.
Start simple. Things you may have previously (electric guitar plucking) based on your avoid being alone principals.
The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they — like you — will be alone.
Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone.
When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You’re no less intriguing a person when you’re eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were.
Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community.
And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one’s watching…because, they’re probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you’re sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life’s best things, down your back like a brook of blessings.
Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you.
Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there’re always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might’ve never happened had you not been there by yourself
Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.
You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one’s in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept.
Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school’s groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you’re happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay.
It’s okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can’t think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach.
And it doesn’t mean you’re not connected, that communitie’s not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn’t get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don’t obsess about it.
you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it
If your heart is bleeding make the best of it
There is heat in freezing, be a testament.
My first acoustic show this sunday as BEATLESS
I am going to be playing at the George and Vulture on Pitfield street. It’s really near Old street.
I am playing this song among other material I have written for my new album “Songs for my unborn children” at 7.30. :)
