#XrisLogbook 156 - Flow, Friction & Forward 🇬🇧

👍🏻 Enjoyed a very British closing chapter of the year: a Live Aid musical, a day spa to recover from 2025, the New Year parade on the Mall… all while booking my next flights to Mauritius. A perfect mix of nostalgia, self-care, spectacle and forward planning. Turns out balance is just knowing when to applaud, when to unplug, and when to check boarding gates. 💂

👎🏻 Winter and the Eurostar remain locked in a long-term misunderstanding. Every year, cold weather arrives right on schedule and somehow still catches a high-speed, cross-border icon by surprise. Delays, cancellations, and the famous “exceptional conditions” announcement have become as seasonal as mulled wine. Proof that even cutting-edge infrastructure can forget one basic assumption: winter tends to come back. 🚄❄️

✍🏻 Live Aid remains one of the clearest reminders that impact scales when purpose meets execution. In 1985, artists didn’t just raise awareness … they mobilised attention, trust, and collective action in real time, long before social media. What’s striking is that nothing of that magnitude has really happened since: audiences fragmented, causes multiplied, platforms monetised attention, and consensus became harder to build. The learning still holds though … when a message is simple, the cause is clear, and momentum is shared, people don’t just listen, they act. Influence isn’t about volume, it’s about rare alignment. 🎸

🙏🏻 Special thanks this week to Karl


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