Peter Kerridge

Be the change you seek

[Peter Kerridge @PeterKerridge_]

Merry Christmas and grateful thanks to the staff at #St.Barth’s hospital and especially the amazing team on ward 5D. The care they give is outstanding and truly life changing for so many.

[Peter Kerridge @PeterKerridge_]

I for one can’t really forgive #NovacytGroup for their consistent lack of performance at both Board & Sales & Marketing level AND their shameful attempt at sneaking out the bad news of the DHSS contract cancellation just as news that Prince Phillip had died broke. Long memories!

[Peter Kerridge @PeterKerridge_]

I’m a long term significant holder in #NovacytGroup. They are currently scrambling around trying to muster up votes ahead of the AGM. The answer is simple,start giving your shareholders some respect AND some value. Both of which have been significantly lacking since Covid began.

[Peter Kerridge @PeterKerridge_]

I for one can’t really forgive #NovacytGroup for their consistent lack of performance at both Board & Sales & Marketing level AND their shameful attempt at sneaking out the bad news of the DHSS contract cancellation just as news that Prince Phillip had died broke. Long memories!

[Peter Kerridge @PeterKerridge_]

I’m a long term significant holder in #NovacytGroup. They are currently scrambling around trying to muster up votes ahead of the AGM. The answer is simple,start giving your shareholders some respect AND some value. Both of which have been significantly lacking since Covid began.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

The White House says they may not be able to identify who brought cocaine in the building. If that’s true, does it also mean that if anthrax had been brought into the White House, which would be a legit terror attack, we wouldn’t be able to figure out who did it either?

[Peter Kerridge @PeterKerridge_]

Great idea

[Paul Chantler @PaulChantler]

I’d like to start a campaign among all the media to stop crediting by name organisations disrupting events. Just describe them as ‘environmental protesters’ which is journalistically accurate. Depriving them and their cause of the oxygen of publicity will make their protests impotent. The media should report events of course but not be complicit in giving these people free plugs. If I was in charge of a newsroom again, I’d make this official policy.

[Peter Kerridge @PeterKerridge_]

From this to the voice of God. That’s some career development!

[Isabel Oakeshott @IsabelOakeshott]

At this rate the French will soon be heading across the channel in inflatable boats….

[David Griffiths @Erudite4Unity]

Imagine if an increasingly out of touch and unpopular public figure was looking to purchase a large property by the Ayrshire coast at a cost well over £2m? Wouldn't that be an interesting development?

[Isabel Oakeshott @IsabelOakeshott]

What you do, it seems, is discriminate against people who don’t sign up to the “correct” view on trans by cancelling their accounts. This is how the Chinese social credit system works….

[Mike Batt @Mike_Batt]

I woke up to this amazing musical tribute from BBC Russia Editor @BBCSteveR Steve Rosenberg. What a lovely surprise, and what a fantastic musician he is! Thanks again, Steve! 🙏

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

‘Good’ here & there but, to sometimes absolutely ‘inadequate’. ‘Outstanding’ occasionally, but definitely ‘requires improvement’. That’s my best assessment of me! My point, it’s time for OFSTED to wake up to complexity in life, in their performance & in the inspection of schools!

[Peter Kerridge @PeterKerridge_]

A couple of excellent insights here.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After the final episode of “Seinfeld” in 1998, Jerry Seinfeld didn’t know what to do next with his life.

With the success of the show, he had options.

“What do I do?” he asked a friend.

“Well what’s been the best experience you’ve had so far?” the friend asked.

Seinfeld said,

Two things:

First, writing—“I just see something and I write it down—I like a big, yellow legal pad—and once I get that pad open, I can’t stop…the next thing I know, the day is gone.”

Second, performing stand-up—“I just love the life of it,” Jerry said. “I love the joy of hearing laughs and making jokes.”

So, despite the cool and lucrative opportunities to further an acting or screenwriting career in Hollywood, Seinfeld moved back to New York City where he returned to writing jokes by day and performing in comedy clubs by night.

Takeaway 1:

“For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life,” the author Amy Krouse Rosenthal said, “PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That's pretty much all the info you need.”

Pay attention to what you can pay attention to so that, as Seinfeld put it, “the next thing you know, the day is gone.”

Takeaway 2:

After investing 9 years into creating the 9 seasons of the show, Seinfeld returned to being a standup comedian.

He made an estimated $38 million from just the last season of the show—when he had a boatful of money and unlimited options, he went back to the thing he loved when he had little money and few options.

It made me think of the parable of the fisherman and the businessman:

In a small coastal village, there is a fisherman who owns a small row boat. One afternoon, after fishing all morning, he returns to shore with his boat full of fish.

A vacationing businessman sees the fisherman and is impressed, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”

“Oh, just a couple of hours,” the fisherman says.

The businessman immediately sees a business opportunity. He offers to invest money in the fisherman—enough to buy a bigger boat and to set up his own company supplying fish to every restaurant in the village.

Fisherman: “And then what?”

Businessman: “We’ll set up a production plant and distribute fish to restaurants around the world.”

Fisherman: “And then what?”

Businessman: “Eventually the business will be so big that we’ll sell it for a huge sum of money.”

Fisherman: “And then what?”

Businessman: “You’ll have so much money that you’ll be able to do whatever you want. You can retire, move to a house by the sea, and fish as much as you want.”

The fisherman was confused, “Isn’t that what I already do?”

It’s just a reminder: the ability to do what you want for as long as you want is priceless and, often, inexpensive.

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“The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, ‘I can do whatever I want today.’” — Morgan Housel

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[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The National’s front pages are a unique treasure. They need to be archived for media historians to consult in the years to come. They make Stalin’s Pravda look objective, impartial and reliable in comparison.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Fair, accurate and authoritative report in the Guardian:

Andrew Neil show is latest victim of Channel 4 cuts https://t.co/jPrvuoQQ6i

[Graham Kings @GrahamRKings]

Brilliant. Why can’t BBC, ITV or Sky be so lucid and concise.
#ThamesWater.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Do not miss this thread

[Lucy Allan @lucyallan]

Well done 👏

[Hope Virgo @HopeVirgo]

Thank you for all you do for those affected by eating disorders! We must keep pushing for change because no one should be condemned to a life of illness or be dying of an eating disorder in 2023!