“What Technology Wants” and “Where Good Ideas Come From” are two books in the same class as Jerod Diamond’s “Guns Germs and Steel” and “Collapse all of which can straighten out your thinking and understand what is coming and why people like yourselves are in the forefront.

I’m sure you all know about TED.COM and have delved into their series of mind expanding perspectives. I have a new app on my iPhone called Word Lens, look that one up.

New word for the week is ‘bricolage’ – remember it in your travels. In “Where Good Ideas Come From” it translates to an incubator made from car parts which can be sustained by 3rd world technologies vs the $40K developed world model.

That’s sounding very similar to what I’ve been experiencing.

I’ve also been strangling my soul in an office while yearning to travel and learn languages. That’s all changing now though – I’m travelling next month then off on another adventure next year!

For readers: “Non-conformity should never be confused with non-acceptance or arrogance. It can be viewed in the lines of lateral thinking and the ability to ask why.”

Greetings from safe and average Germany, we have more than 1,300 McDonald’s restaurants here, too. Fortunately we failed at world domination several decades ago.

I feel the need to have an adventure, break out of my boring little life and boring routine, to do something more with my life….surely there must more to life than a boring job which I struggle to care less about, a degree which will land me a ‘good job’ (but bores me witless).

For me, this article hits the nail right on the head because I’ve been sitting here thinking ‘there’s got to be more to life than this!’