Author of At Work in the Ruins. Co-founder of Dark Mountain and a school called HOME. Mostly on Substack these days – https://dougald.substack.com/ – so out of practice at writing short bios and messages. https://linktr.ee/atworkintheruinshttps://bsky.app/profile/dougald.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dougald.bsky.social/post/3l6rhd66q322aI told this story in yesterday’s Substack essay – and my dad turned up in the comments to confirm that it is true and that he still has the book. The lesson here is: NEVER DOUBT YOUR MUM! https://dougald.substack.com/p/stirring-the-pot18 Oct 2024 07:33 +0000at://did:plc:lwgpp3vpty2dss77kmlqhr77/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6rhd66q322ahttps://bsky.app/profile/dougald.bsky.social/post/3l6pkyxto2h2x"It’s a powerful thing to stand in front of a roomful of people and have all that attention trained on you. I have an image of attention as a material you can work with: a pliable material, somewhere between clay and thread." Here's a new essay about learning to go on stage without a script. https://dougald.substack.com/p/stirring-the-pot17 Oct 2024 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:lwgpp3vpty2dss77kmlqhr77/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6pkyxto2h2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dougald.bsky.social/post/3l6owzmalhg2nMassive 2009-era Twitter nostalgia, stumbling onto here and straight into old friends like @lloyddavis.bsky.social & @solobasssteve.bsky.social. And remembering the guy on the original Twitter dev team who told me they almost restricted it to 140-followers as well as 140-chars. #dunbarnumber17 Oct 2024 07:36 +0000at://did:plc:lwgpp3vpty2dss77kmlqhr77/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6owzmalhg2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dougald.bsky.social/post/3l6owg4ouwe2tI figured the Swedish-language intro would put people off, but this is getting more views than anything I've shared in ages. It's a talk I gave to the Transition Network here about the slow journey of arriving in a small place and what it's been teaching me. (And the bits in Swedish have subtitles.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTswLCEWgbg17 Oct 2024 07:25 +0000at://did:plc:lwgpp3vpty2dss77kmlqhr77/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6owg4ouwe2thttps://bsky.app/profile/dougald.bsky.social/post/3l6otfyal4e27Sitting at my desk in the old shoe shop. From the window, I see a sky that's decidedly grey. But thanks to @blakeyfrench.bsky.social for brightening the October horizon with a prompt to visit this corner of the internet.17 Oct 2024 06:31 +0000at://did:plc:lwgpp3vpty2dss77kmlqhr77/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6otfyal4e27