Tom Farrand
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Just realised I've been washing my hair with my wife's conditioner for about 2 weeks. Oops....7 hours ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Epic week. Close to best ever. Now it's that time #poweredbyred22 hours ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@Sprinzette @shesaysuk I'd ask the lovely Sue (@Dr_Black) - doing amazing work around kids/coding/women in technology/Bletchley Park30 hours ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Hayfevery but happy. That kind of morning34 hours ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Strong rumblings in the force tonight. Nature shaped ones, as big as trees. It was @g00dfornothing without a shadow of a doubt....42 hours ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@TomGriffola you just saved me from a similar fate. literally by a whisker!42 hours ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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I can hear beer calling - nice, cold, cold, fizzy lager2 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Urban-nature-rave -> RT @dansolo: Possible location for the next @g00dfornothing #wildthing #hitechhinature http://t.co/KTRsHnX2
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Just had a cola ice lolly too which was nice
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sat in a skip garden, shorts, flip flops, sunglasses - checking out venue for next @g00dfornothing - deserted industrial rave meets nature?
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@greenape Unlikely I'd say. I'm pretty sure people remember things more if they've laughed. Can't prove it but would hazard a guess!2 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@meeware will send out and come along, definitely! saw @bevangelist - sounds amazing, compare notes on science/developer collaboration soon?2 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@Asi_Sharabi @benmason @dansolo @jimmy_alpha 3rd track in and can see this one getting a lot of love.... thanks Asi2 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Nomadic: Greek - "those who let pasture herds" - communities who move from 1 place to another rather than settling permanently in 1 location2 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Trying to get my hands on some tickets for West Ham vs Saints on Tuesday night - anyone help? cc Steven DearPosted 3 months ago
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Just back from the ever expanding college Somerset House skating and pizza Xmas reunion. Every year we see our numbers rise and the faces of waitresses and fellow diners drop. This year must have broken some recordsPosted 5 months ago
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Stephen King Nick Steel Robin Farrand fellas, what's the deal for the morning? 10am start, get there before 9.30am to pick everything up - I'm driving from home so will leave just after 8.00am I reckon.Posted 5 months ago
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Steven Dear Matthew Watts still tickets going for Tuesday night - think I'm going, you in?Posted 7 months ago
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tom.farrand just joined the MakeSense party. Get ready to discover his/her Business hacker superpowers on http://www.makesense.org.Posted 7 months ago
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Stephen King Dan Burgess Nick Steel what time shall we meet in the morning? around 8.45ish near the start?Posted 7 months ago
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Cheery little song Jasmine just made up "It's the end of the world. When the sun goes down.......and the hippos all go to sleep". More Leonard Cohen than Kylie. Quite uplifting tune though.Posted 7 months ago
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I'm raising money for Build Africa by taking part in 2011 Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon. I've left it a little late! Please sponsor me at www.virginmoneygiving.com/tomfarrandPosted 7 months ago
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How I'm feeling this morning -> http://t.co/312D1t0 Primal Scream – Come TogetherPosted 8 months ago
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Woken up suitably early by our super-excited little girl who's going to her 1st day at school. A special morning in the Farrand familyPosted 8 months ago
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#poweredbyteaPosted 9 months ago
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Summary
After 15 years of commercial innovation and brand marketing, I realised that much of what I've learnt would be better applied against the bigger challenges we're facing and not just to making more money for big business.
Now seeking like-minded individuals and teams for diverse missions to create profit with purpose - finding ways to accelerate positive social and environmental innovation by connecting up business, community and social entrepreneurs.
Would like to spend the next 15 years of my life creating new forms of value and opportunity, particularly for the next generation of talented young people entering the workplace.
I'm passionate about lots of stuff, including my young family, Africa, snowboarding, windsurfing, running, cricket, rugby, acid house memories, Southampton FC and general cultural and technology geekiness (oh yeah, and Star Wars..).
Always happy to meet, partner or simply chuck ideas around on problems that need solving in creative ways.
Wrote a book about Brands in Gaming before - doesn't quite fit with the mission, but was a lot of fun, and helped me justify an unhealthy addiction to gaming I had at the time....
Experience
- 2010 - PresentCo-founder / Good for Nothing
- Sept 2009 - PresentCo-founder / The Pipeline Project
- Mar 2007 - PresentSenior Partner / Lippincott
- Sept 2001 - PresentGlobal Head of Innovation / Added Value
- Jun 2000 - PresentConsultant / Differ
- Sept 1996 - PresentTechnical Brand Manager, Beauty Care / Procter & Gamble
Education
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1992 - 1996University of OxfordM Biochem in Biochemistry
Posts
Not written much about running recently.
Or indeed run as much as I'd have liked.
Partly because I've had lots of work on. Partly a lack of time.
But mostly I've been feeling the need for inspiration, a change, something different.
The good news is that I think I've found it.
Last week I was inspired by this tweet that came out of The Do Lectures
"The definition of an adventure = when you're in the middle of it, you wish you were safely back home" Richard Askwith
Which I read at the same time as the opening of the ballot for the London Marathon next year
So I signed up, remembering with some pain, the torturous last 6 miles of my only marathon to date.
When I really did wish I was back at home...
With the race taking place virtually on my doorstep, and having pulled out at the last minute with illness at previous attempt, this is the one itch I just want to scratch.
Reading "Feet in the Clouds. A story of fell-running and obsession" then fired me up further.
It made me think that pounding the roads is all well and good as part of the training to run long.
But the stories of fell running and mountain adventures stirred something much deeper in me.
A feeling that running to the hills is the way to go to really harden up for longer distances.
Which is why I'm now planning to have a go at The Original Mountain Marathon in the Autumn
It's a bit like this...
Which means I need to learn 2 new things
1. how to move a bit faster over the hills - fell-running
We went to Coniston last year on a trip to the lakes and did this amazing day walk.
It was 9 miles and took about 6 hours.
The winner of this did it in just over an hour....
2. how to get very sharp at navigation on the go...orienteering
I've done quite a bit of navigation before, but not recently. So need to get out and get practising.
A bit like this..
It looks so easy on these nicely shot films.
The reality is going to be much tougher.
I'll be keeping some sort of record/diary about it all on here. So watch this space.
And wish me luck!
I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.
- C. S. Lewis -
Inspired by @searsio, I too am having a mid-life ex-raver crisis.
But watch this, and tell me you wouldn't have wanted to be there hearing this for the first time!
A Friday feeling if ever there was one!
Corsham Court Oriental plane 'most spreading tree in UK', near Chippenham in Wilts. I reckon I could spend at least a day climbing this one....
More Windsurfing Videos
A mission before I'm too old is to get good enough to sail waves......this looks awesome
More geekery but amazing work from Information is Beautiful. More £ to Africa and Climate Change please. Less to bankers. Obviously.
If you haven't discovered this awesome mash-up yet, check it out. Best way to work out where the snow is......
I normally love this kind of thing - geeky data visualisation that reveals some massive, hidden behaviour that's interesting....
But for this map of the world's Facebook relationships it's hard not to see the dominant US/Europe axis that technology is both enabling and accelerating. It somehow doesn't feel quite right that the true inequality in access to technology, but also to opportunity is so vividly brought to life via a social networking site.
Makes me think the world could be a much better place if there were more strong relationships between people in the West and folk in the Rest. Or at least a better and deeper understanding of the extent of the inequality and the dramatic differences in each others lives....
Wonder if Facebook could or even should be piloting some kind of 'Facebook for Good' idea to help this? Linking up people in very different parts of the world as 'pen pals' - to promote sharing of lifestyles, dreams, aspirations, current realities. No exchange of money, just an exchange of ideas and ideals - would be really interesting, and you never know, could even lead to something?
What do you reckon?
Only just seen this. Brilliant. Love the 'that thing that happened in the Middle East, or Africa. Whatever' line - you couldn't make it up.
Great to run yesterday for the first time with the guys and girls at The Good Gym out and about in Bethnal Green.
The Good Gym is a cracking social venture - the brainchild of the brilliant Ivo and Mark, and product of the equally ace Social Innovation Camp where the idea was born and developed. Their tagline summarises it pretty neatly - fit for purpose.
The mission last night was for the 11 volunteer runners who turned up in the squally London night to head out to a primary school, lift 50 or so bags of soil to a new roof garden being built on the top floor of the school, and run back. Some real heavy lifting, a good little run out and about East London, and a well deserved pint afterwards.
More to come on The Good Gym, as we look to see what kind of app we can help them build as part of our Good for Nothing idea on Dec 3/4 but if you fancy a different fitness challenge and are in the area, check them out and get involved.
Yesterday I found the real size of Africa.
Today, I found this saying "We Are All Africans"
In Mr Richard Dawkin's words...
"The Bible says modern people are the result of incestuous relations Cain and his brothers had with their sisters. Science says we are all descendants of Africans. I believe science"
Sounds good to me.....I'm in!
This is mental. I'm still reeling from China, and then this comes along. Wow!
I've a bit soft spot for Africa, being born in Nairobi and lived in a few places there as a kid. It feels like the unloved continent. The place being left behind.
But just imagine what the world would be like if Africa fulfils its true potential, when it's this BIG!?
Bonkers
Image by Greg Osuri http://bit.ly/alpcgn
Amazingly shot film from the perspective of a cameraman behind surfing footage. Love the way this film is shot - passion, adventure, excitement, emotion. Just check the list of stuff that happens to a surfer photographer in action.......brutal
Shame it's from the #pointless #Relentless energy drink. At least some creative good has come from their involvement and this beauty got created.
Hat tip to @dansolo for pointing this my way
This water map shows billions at risk of 'water insecurity'
The first time I've seen a map where Europe gets some heat from all this climate change stuff - normally all about the equatorial zone but when it comes to water - we're directly in the firing line......
....at some point the penny has to drop
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