Wasted: A Project or Two That Went Wrong
Posted on December 19, 2006
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The presence of projects that go wrong is one of those modern events ever present in the lives of people like me - I assume also people like you otherwise you wouldn’t be here reading. In the old days economists measured productivity in simple terms. Goods went into the back door of a factory and came out finished. Productivity amounted to how many people it took to work the sandwich in between.
Waste seems to be integral to our productivity now - yes packaging waste but also intellectual waste. There have been times over the years when I’ve felt life has become one big proposal. A bit like John Lennon saying Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans, I was thinking or a while that life itself amounted to a new business plan, a new spreadsheet and more lies about the financial upside. If you detect cynicism there I hope my claim that no, no, it’s just being’ realistic, doesn’t seem too implausible.
As the year ends I’m about to put a couple of magazine projects in the shredder. The first is RIPE a mag I wanted to launch this year in Ireland. Gloss got off the ground in Dublin, Intermezzo too, but RIPE, a magazine that would have taken an intelligent, even intellectual view, of lifestyle choices bit the dust.
So too did Vision, a mag I was discussing with the Wall St Journal. It was to look at the IT industry from a lifestyle viewpoint taking the non-too controversial but I had hoped journalistically innovative line that technology is now in the background so we should start focusing on the difference it makes to our culture.
RIP. Any body with a wad of money and a love of intellectually demanding magazines and a desire to invest, you could very well make my Christmas.
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