I first talked at the Do Lectures in 2007 when it wasn't called Do. It was called Little Big Voice. Then I talked again in 2008 (with Matt Jones) and then I went back in 2009. But I don't remember talking.
And in 2011 I went and did a How To Be Interesting workshop under the Do umbrella.
And then, last summer, I was fortunate enough to be asked to go and talk again. I think I got the vibe a bit wrong, to be honest, the 'Do community' was feeling a lot of post-pandemic fervour, I was banging on about the challenges of AI, but it was still the most fascinating few days. And, while I was there I bumped into Miranda who runs Do Books and she asked me if was interested in doing a Do book. And so I said, of course.
There was already a Do Present and I'd just written a book about PowerPoint so I had to fall back on the only other thing I'm qualified to write about. And so I'm writing Do Interesting.
We're aiming for it to be on sale in September 2023. I think. That seems very soon now. But, if you stay tuned, over the next few weeks and months, you'll be able to follow along with a series of posts about how it's all going. It seems like a good thing to blog about writing. While I'm writing about blogging.