Increasing Interestingness
I’ve been on a bit of a posting dry-spell lately as I’ve been busy - the blogosphere won’t read itself you know - and there are many more posts people have made about their cats, addiction to sugary drinks and what type of furniture they’ll be needing I’ve yet to read, I found a gem of a post from Russell Davies. How to be interesting. Now clearly I’m as interesting as I’m ever going to get, but what great advice:
- Take at least one picture everyday. Post it to flickr.
- Start a blog. Write at least one sentence every week.
- Keep a scrapbook
- Every week, read a magazine you’ve never read before
- Once a month interview someone for 20 minutes, work out how to make them interesting. Podcast it.
- Collect something
- Once a week sit in a coffee-shop or cafe for an hour and listen to other people’s conversations. Take notes. Blog about it. (Carefully)
- Every month write 50 words about one piece of visual art, one piece of writing, one piece of music and one piece of film or TV. Do other art forms if you can. Blog about it
- Make something
- Read