I read about Jason Roberts earlier this year in Dumbo Feather magazine and was blown away by what he had achieved as an "ordinary person". To cut a long story short, when looking to buy a house with his wife years ago, he realised they could only afford to live in an undesirable part of town. Instead of being put off by that, he made it his mission to make it a better place to live - and he achieved it.
He's a co-founder of Better Block, which is a movement that has spread across the globe that revitalises communities. What they do is pretty cool...look at the Dumbo Feather interview, or the Better Block website, or Jason Roberts's TED talk.
This is a guy whose day job was working in IT, not someone with a degree in town planning. He shows that you don't have to wait to be asked, or for someone else to start...you can do it yourself.
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Thursday, 5 December 2013
Sunday, 8 September 2013
Dumbo Feather led me to Brain Pickings
Let me explain.
I was browsing the magazines in my local newsagent recently and saw a publication called Dumbo Feather. I hadn't ever read it before, or even realised it existed, but it had a photo of a cool looking woman on the front cover at her computer and the headline "Maria Popova is a Brain Picker" so despite the hefty AU$15 price tag I bought a copy and took it home.
Dumbo Feather is a magazine that's intelligent but readable, about things that matter and with no airbrushing. It's also printed on nice thick matt paper so it looks and feels nice as well (a bit like another great Australian magazine called Frankie). Dumbo Feather does exactly what it says on its cover which is to have "conversations with extraordinary people."
It turns out that the $15 was a good investment because I then discovered that Maria Popova has a blog called Brain Pickings (which is updated almost every day and is completely free), and Dumbo Feather has a website which contains all of the magazine content and archives FOR FREE!!!
Checking the Brain Pickings blog has turned into a daily habit for me, and it's a source of great ideas for things to read, clever videos to watch, art to enjoy and people to admire.
For me it has been a much better way to while away time on the internet instead of online shopping or people.com!
I was browsing the magazines in my local newsagent recently and saw a publication called Dumbo Feather. I hadn't ever read it before, or even realised it existed, but it had a photo of a cool looking woman on the front cover at her computer and the headline "Maria Popova is a Brain Picker" so despite the hefty AU$15 price tag I bought a copy and took it home.
Dumbo Feather is a magazine that's intelligent but readable, about things that matter and with no airbrushing. It's also printed on nice thick matt paper so it looks and feels nice as well (a bit like another great Australian magazine called Frankie). Dumbo Feather does exactly what it says on its cover which is to have "conversations with extraordinary people."
It turns out that the $15 was a good investment because I then discovered that Maria Popova has a blog called Brain Pickings (which is updated almost every day and is completely free), and Dumbo Feather has a website which contains all of the magazine content and archives FOR FREE!!!
Checking the Brain Pickings blog has turned into a daily habit for me, and it's a source of great ideas for things to read, clever videos to watch, art to enjoy and people to admire.
For me it has been a much better way to while away time on the internet instead of online shopping or people.com!
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