The swimmer, the fisherman, and the deep-sea diver
Knowledge is the condition of understanding something which is personally meaningful, and potentially useful in some capacity. As such it is deeply sub…
Knowledge is the condition of understanding something which is personally meaningful, and potentially useful in some capacity. As such it is deeply sub…
As I was driving from my village into the city this morning, a trip of around 85 kilometres, I tuned in to a Facebook Live recording featuring my frien…
I am a fan of both Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. They are both original thinkers with some exciting perspectives. I was eagerly anticipating “The …
I love strategy. I think everything is strategy. My favourite book is “33 strategies of war”, but I am also a big fan of Kenichi Ohmae (found a paperba…
I have skulked around the side-lines of the education industry all my life. Occasionally I have ventured into its alluring orbit only to beat a hasty r…
In case you hadn’t noticed, although I am not at all sure how you could miss it, many of our most life-critical systems are rapidly unravelling. The cu…
If you follow any professionally based social media you may have noticed a number of posts offering “pro bono” or “free of charge” expertise and suppor…
Toilet paper is wiped clean. Purell hand sanitizers have gone up 500% in price, if you can find it at all. Canned goods are disappearing off store shel…
I have an unusual vantage on our current pandemic. In 2006, I worked in an unlikely role for the Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer, Roche. I was respon…
Did you know that at the equator, the Earth spins at a fixed rate of around 1,000 miles an hour? Probably not. The reason you cannot feel it turning is…
The world of work is changing. Calling someone a Luddite today gives the impression that they are a thoughtless opponent of progress, resistant to tech…
In a world where the only constant is change, where trends and new technologies are appearing, but also disappearing in such a short time, every hint o…
Naturally in order to have a successful new product, you have to have a group of consumers willing to buy it. So I think it’s important that innovation…
Across a new series of thought pieces, I’ll investigate the influence of California on our new ‘radical’ technologies such as Automation, Artificial In…