What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?