Check out the video from the “Future Vision Montage” from Microsoft.  Some very interesting concepts for daily technology use in the future.  Some of this stuff is amazing.  I can’t wait until paper reacts to human interaction.  It will bring with it a whole new range of ideas and businesses for getting information to people.

Another great place for getting information about consumer trends is trendwatching.com.

I spoke with Andy, a friend of mine, over the weekend during a downpour of rain while camping* and he was giving me some feedback on Ditch the Office.  He wasn’t sure if some of the posts were relevant to how I was going to ditch the office.  I think I’d agree with him to a certain degree.  I suppose I’m struggling on two fronts:

1. I struggle with creative writing.  It takes me forever to write something that I’m happy with so it takes forever to get content up on Ditch the Office.  I really want to get better at this.  A glass of wine is helping this post.  Enough said.
2. I’ve got a list as long as my arm about the lessons I’ve learnt so far through my experiences so I’m also struggling to work out in which order I should publish them.

So in line with Andy’s feedback, I’m going to make a greater effort to make the posts here relevant so that they’re both inspiring and informative.  Here’s my request.  The following is my current list of posts that I plan to write.  If you’ve got any preference on the ones you’d like to see sooner rather than later, let me know and I’ll prioritise them.  I’d also be grateful for any other topics that you’d be interested in.  I’m sure that I’d at least have an opinion on whatever it is

• The Bookshelf – I think this is pretty self-explanatory.  I plan to list out the books I’ve got on my shelf.  It’s really to provide a list of the books that I’m interested in reading that will eventually become reviews on Ditch the Office.
• To Prototype Or Not, That is the Question – I want to run through the experiences I’ve recently been through with ‘furcle’ and the thoughts I have about another project that I’m currently working on in relation to developing a product prototype.
• Show Me the Money – I hate Jerry McGuire, especially that cute little kid with the glasses that wins over Tom Cruise.  Anyway, this post is about a discussion that I had with Ajay the other day about pricing relating to the aforementioned other project
• Let’s Do the Congo – Anyone familiar with the congo chain?  It’s sure to appear wherever there’s a large gathering of happy people who have usually had a couple of vino’s and are hitting the dance floor – the logical thing is to grab some hip and Da Da da da Da Kick!  It’s just one after another and it’s the same with the business ideas.  You need a pipeline of ideas I’ve been told so that’s what I’ve got.  I’ve found that I’m struggling with working on four concurrent projects and planning many more ideas besides.
• What Am I Really Doing? – Believe it or not, I am actually working on Ditching the Office AND doing something for myself so I wanted to give you a better idea of what I’m actually working on.  I’m still a little sensitive about what I’ll publish until there is a business operating (hey, I’m being honest) but I do want to give further details and one thing I have learnt is that you can’t start a business without talking to as many people as possible.  And speaking of which…
• Poker Face -
• Inspire Me! – What is it that is worth working on?  I’ll humour you with my approach to identifying what it is that inspires me.
• Can’t Someone Else Do That? – Outsource baby, yeah!  Don’t let a lack of skills, time or desire to do something hold you back – I’m not!
• Lifestyle Guru – The end game for all of this.  I’m trying to design/engineer/architect my lifestyle (and my beautiful wife’s).  There’s plenty of things we want to do in our life and working for someone else is going to take up too much time.

I’ve got some other topics as well but if you’ve read this far then you’ve done well!  Either way, this is a request for you to let me know if there’s ideas that you’re interested in reading about.

What I also plan to do is try to post my activities and achievements for the week gone by.  I’m also going to try and provide some more information about my different streams of activities.

* We went camping at The Basin located in the Kurringai Chase National Park.  It appears that it rained the most there across all of Sydney over Saturday night (check out the rainfall for Avalon).  Needless to say there was some tent flooding that resulted in some weary people the next day.