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My 30 day challenges, day 24 – by Philip Dodson

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Today is day 24, my Dad’s birthday today, he’s 85. My parents live in France, so don’t get to see them as often as I would like, but it was good to chat with him on the phone tonight leaving the hub, although forgot that 9pm English time is 10pm French time oops!

So today was a very interesting day, kicked off by a great chat on collaboration and co-working at the hub, with my mate Bernie and others. Followed by an excellent client meeting, although a diary screw up meant I was an hour early! Then back to the hub for a 4networking meet with dinner.

Today’s picture is of the concourse at London Victoria Station, a place I pass through twice a day, pretty much most days of my life.

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I tweeted this picture, as I do with most of my instagram pic’s (sad I know) – someone replied, commenting how empty it was. The interesting thing is, the place was fairly packed, but that’s what is strange about images, you can create what you want from them.

85% of statistics are made up – like that one.

So images we think show what is really there, but like all things, you can create what suits you. People will read something and very often say ‘don’t believe that’. However, we are much more trusting of images.

Just because it’s there in front of you to see, doesn’t make it so.

My 30 day challenges, day 23 – by Philip Dodson

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Day 23, the challenges are being done almost on auto-pilot now, although starting to do my blog at 10.05pm having been up since 5.45 am is a slight struggle today.

So it’s short and sweet tonight. Today’s picture is taken towards Tower Bridge from London Bridge.

day 23

London is a great city, I have lived and worked in many different countries and spent time in some great cities. But London tops them all for me.

However, what struck me about walking through the City Of London, from the shiny tower that is Heron Tower, all the way over London Bridge to catch a train, is what is going to happen to all these giant corporate ‘shards’ of glass and steel?

The world is changing, we are moving away from the old school large corporations, to the brave new world of small, start-ups, freelancing and self-employment. The never ending increases in the cost of commuting and technology, that means we can now work anywhere, what will happen to our city centres? We’ve seen the death of retail on the high street, we will in my opinion see the decline of large corporations.So may be The Shard or the Walkie-Talkie building, will be the last of the corporate ‘trophies’, built for the ego’s of the old school world.