I travel by trains a lot, since I do most of my work not really near where I live. And I use that time for a lot of things. Trains are great. They enable you to go wherever you want to go, and while you are doing that, do something else at the same time. I do like driving though, but not only to get me from A to B. Because sitting in a car with my favorite music on, always makes my head spin and writing down ideas while driving is a bad idea. And recording them on a memo recorder simply doesn’t work for me. Writing ideas down, print the ideas in my brain. The saying ‘I don’t write things down to remember it later, but remember it now’ is so true for me. So, for me trains give me time while cars take time.

Besides all the things that I need to do for projects I work on, like reading briefings, backgrounds, preparing meetings, writing proposals, concepts, etc. I use my train time for inspiration. A project provides me an extra lens to look at the world, in any form. From magazines, tv, things on the street, what people say, the news, imagery, anything.

In the train, I watch a lot of vodcasts from and about a lot of things. Vodcasts are great, because they provide snack size inspiration that, one way or the other, always become meaningful for the projects I am working on at that moment. I also see a lot of things that I can’t use or don’t touch me. But also a lot that does. That can be anything. Great new technologies, beautiful things, but mostly great stories. So, since I always see a lot of them, I can share with you a selection of what I think are interesting things to watch on the go. Or any other kind of portable inspiration.

So check back regularly for a fine selection of carefully selected goods for inspiration, or subscribe to this channel’s RSS feed. Enjoy!

As a starter, the great 7 year itch theory of Stefan Sagmeister: