TTH Blueprint Episode 23: Three Friends, One Pint and a Slightly Dodgy Idea | Matt Knight, Freely Fruity
Started over a pint before Covid, nearly became “the Banksy of the tree world,” ended up growing food for food banks and planting community orchards across the country. Proof that “why doesn’t somebody do something” works better as “why don’t we.”
🌳🍎 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/he-plants-fruit-trees-for-free-and
I Put the Price Up Because I Didn’t Want to Sell It | Phillippa Mole
Athlete, broadcaster, psychologist, now painter. She once hiked the price on a piece she couldn’t bear to part with, just to put buyers off. Sold immediately. Now it’s written into someone’s will.
🎨🖼️ https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/i-put-the-price-up-because-i-didnt
AI, Airdrie and the Strange Smell of Green Smoke
An £8.2bn AI datacentre promised on-site renewables and thousands of jobs for Lanarkshire. A Guardian investigation found the power plan was shakier than advertised and the jobs figure may be wildly inflated. Ambition isn’t a substitute for honesty.
🏭💨 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/ai-airdrie-and-the-strange-smell
Everyone Should Try Something They’re Rubbish At
Ninety hot minutes at the London School of Samba, drums round the neck, zero rhythm to speak of. Turns out community doesn’t need perfect conditions, just a willingness to have a go.
🥁😅 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/everyone-should-try-something-theyre
I’m Going to Start Appearing on OnlyFans...
Relax, it’s not what it sounds like. It’s actually about climate campaigners going where LinkedIn can’t reach them anymore, and a bigger question about where real conversations happen now.
📱🙃 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/im-going-to-start-appearing-on-onlyfans
On the Turntable: Brian Protheroe | Musician of the Month | July
Wrote Pinball in 1974. Paul Weller covered it, Morrissey and Noel Gallagher noticed. Still releasing albums in his 80s, still curious, still writing. His hope for the new record: “the urge to play it again.”
🎧🕺 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/on-the-turntable-brian-protheroe
If You Want to Retire, Just Do It!
Everyone says they could retire tomorrow. Almost nobody does. Turns out most of them don’t actually want freedom from work, they want freedom to choose their work. Fair enough, but stop with the quarterly updates.
🏖️🙄 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/if-you-want-to-retire-just-do-it
Je Suis TTH
A pile of old Charlie Hebdo comics in a Normandy bric-a-brac shop sparked a bigger point. Nobody's beyond question, including us. Every tribe grows its sacred cows, and that's usually where things start going wrong.
🖼️❓ https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/je-suis-tth
TTH Blueprint Episode 22: Tanishq Jain, The Founder Building an AI Chief Sustainability Officer
Grew up in a family that recycles ships for a living, now builds an AI tool that makes sustainability ROI driven instead of tick box. Honest about AI’s own footprint, honest about leading a team of three.
♻️🤖 https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/tth-blueprint-episode-22-tanishq
one more thing
Forward this to the friend who needs a hobby they’re bad at, the colleague still “about to retire,” and anyone who thought this email was going somewhere very different halfway through.
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