Think what you would do if only you had the money then figure out how you can do it anyway January 16, 2007

Think what you would do if only
you had the money then figure out
how you can do it anyway

is a workshop Charlie Davies and Matt Weston are
putting on next Tuesday 16 Jan., upstairs at The
Farm, Farm Rd., Hove, 7-9pm, £2.

More detail:

1. In December, we spent a week trying to write
a book, a manual with

Think what you would do if only
you had the money then figure out
how you can do it anyway

as the title.
Inspired partly by this essay
http://www.putmedown.com/82/bookaweek.htm

2. We wanted to figure out the intersection between the
sets of ideas in, say,
A. How To Have a Number One The Easy Way
http://www.klf.de/online/books/bytheklf/manual.htm
B. Bootstrapper's Bible
http://www.jjleonard.co.uk/?p=85
C. Getting Real
https://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php
D. A Technique for Producing Ideas
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0071410945
E. The Seven Day Weekend
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,938216,00.html
F. Go
http://www.dontgo.co.uk/

3. We had ideas pouring out of our ears. But
then it struck us, after a week of working on the manual,
that a manual isn't Really a manual unless you've tested
it out on hundreds of people or things, like they did
with A, B, C, D, E, F above. Until then our
twywdioyhtmtfohycdia manual is only a novel, one that
begins with a man throwing handfulls of $100 bills from a
speeding car and ends who gives a shit how.

4. So, to test out some of the ideas,
we're putting on a £2 workshop.
http://upcoming.org/event/137881/

5. It'll be extremely ad lib, extremely ad hoc. At the
least, we'll talk for a bit, and then hand out the stream
of conch. notes we typed up at the end of our week of
nonstop work on the book, and then split into groups (if
there are enough of us). You can either bring a twywdio
or just bring yourself. Your twywdio can be anything: a
startup, a green project, a toy, a web app, a school.

6. That's about all the detail we have.