Typical. I’ve just spent half a day drafting some material for a TEDx talk in Poland next month and had to junk the whole thing. I was planning, yet again, to talk about how architecture influences thinking when I suddenly thought no. I want to talk about gardening. This was probably a result of a briefing sheet urging people to talk about what they were most passionate about. Therefore the choice was essentially new ideas, old cars, wine, greenhouses or gardening.

Then the strangest thing happened. Out of nowhere it occurred to me that what I really want to talk about is libraries! So, librarians of Lodz, get yourself down to the conference center at the Technical University on Sept 9.