When you work in technology the real sign of middle age is being repeatedly asked by friends and family what we should all be teaching our kids given the emergence of AI, automation and genomics....
We’re not alone in believing that the insurance industry is ripe for disruption – the market is enormous, exceeding 5% of US GDP, and the incumbents have archaic business processes that yiel...
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Things change, increasingly quickly. It follows that things that didn’t work in the past may work now and those that worked in the past may be unsuccessful today. Investors and Founders have t...
Design Indaba is an amazing event in Cape Town each year. It really is worth browsing their videos, in my one below I discuss human needs, the history of the alarm clock, technology as a tool, f...
I was fortunate enough to speak with Clay Christensen and Rohan Silva on the Capitalist’s Dilemma at the RSA in London. It was a treat because Clay was the best teacher I have ever had and an i...
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危 wēi danger Flickr started as an online role-playing game called Game Neverending. The game featured a navigable map, real-time interaction with other users, instant messaging and was pla...
危 wēi danger “Each year more than 1 billion pieces of litter will accumulate on Texas highways. Of those, 13% are cigarette butts. That means 130 million butts will be tossed out in Texas a...
危 wēi danger Where possible we all try to launch something in order to learn, ideally releasing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that real customers can react to. But for more complex offers of...
Community is king for any collaboration platform or social network: outcomes are primarily a function of the participating users and any software is strictly in their service. With this in mind, ...