The New New Thing

With the new year rapidly approach­ing, it’s prob­a­bly about time I wrote this down.

As of Jan­u­ary 2012, acid­labs will change its shape considerably.

More than any­thing, this site will go back to being my per­sonal site — a place where I write down my thoughts and mus­ings on any num­ber of things from pol­i­tics to col­lab­o­ra­tion, big ideas, open gov­ern­ment, improv­ing the way busi­ness func­tions in a 21^st Cen­tury world where Indus­trial Age busi­ness mod­els have pretty much proved beyond doubt that they’re broken.

I won’t be run­ning acid­labs, the busi­ness, as a con­sul­tancy and my prin­ci­pal source of income any more.

acid­labs will con­tinue to exist, but will become some­thing that’s focussed on being an inno­va­tion and action col­lab­o­ra­tive around big ideas and change for a bet­ter world, kind of like my friends Eric and Hal­lie do at shark&minnow in Cleve­land. The two core things acid­labs will do in that respect will be to con­tinue to sup­port both TEDx­Can­berra as a prin­ci­pal activ­ity and Bar­Camp Can­berra as a sec­ondary one.

So, all this begs the ques­tion, “What will you be doing?”

As of Jan­u­ary 9^th 2012, I will be join­ing the Global Car­bon Cap­ture and Stor­age Insti­tute to work with them and their research com­mu­nity on col­lab­o­ra­tion, knowl­edge shar­ing and change. It feels like a great oppor­tu­nity to extend the type of work I’ve been doing with the Asia Pacific Civil-​​Military Cen­tre of Excel­lence the past 15 months into new and excit­ing ter­ri­tory. I’ll miss the Cen­tre and the amaz­ing peo­ple that work there, but I plan to meet and work with a crowd of new and amaz­ing peo­ple at the new new thing.