Category: Blogpost 2000

To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests. Mr Gee suggested this one. He writes: I did a workshop with a group of 14 year olds. I was talking about comic book heroes being like Greek gods (it's a standard analogy … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: You’re trying to shape my nostalgia with your own

To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests. A reader suggested this one. The wellbeing industry is a reaction to, from where I see it, the second coming of Taylorism that has haunted the corridors of offices across the planet in … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: Forced Fun

To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests. Adam Learning suggested this one. Like many things that I do, I didn't really know why I started blogging. I had bought the mattballantine.com domain in a moment of digital vanity, and the … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: Your First Post

To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests. Hilary Gallo suggested this one. Looking back, I’m not sure that people who didn’t live through it can quite understand the pressure that there was on the New Year’s Eve party of 1999. … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: The party you had in 1999

To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests.Peter O'Rourke asked me these questions: The one blog your proudest of, and why? There are two, one sensible, one silly. Plus a short series of four posts that are really one long post … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: Some questions

This is my 2000th blogpost. Rather than simply write a normal post, or indeed write a post about it being my 2000th blogpost, I decided to ask the question on Twitter of what it should be about. I didn't really know what to expect, but as a result of the query I've now got the … Continue reading Blogpost 2000