I’m still catchng up with your past writing. With regard to the role that the mess of papers in one’s office and on one’s desk plays to knowledge workers, I am reminded of an explanation by Ken Wilber of his process of coming up with his theory of everything. This as I recall consisted of his laying out all of the theories that he knew of on the floor and then trying to make sense of it. He has two books that deals with this. The description might be found in his “Brief History of Everything.”

Barry Camson

In terms of the self-employed or not – in absolute numbers I did more interviews with those employed by Microsoft :) I think that the element of choice comes there pretty strongly as well. It’s different from being a self-employed, but in both cases where are risks and rules to manage. What I didn’t realise fully before interviewing Euan Semple is that blogging while being self-employed might be even more risky, since it’s the impact is not mediated by an organisation.