Are we all living in denial? We cling desperately to our past routines and beliefs as if one day we will wake up and everything will be as it was. It will not. The pace of change is accelerating or perhaps the storms on the horizon have finally arrived. Either way those who are preparing to lead must do exactly that. This is not a time for steady as she goes “governance” or management. Our time...
Content is a cue that teaches us to respect, follow, ignore and much more. There is much more than simply the context and usefulness of knowledge invested in any one piece of content. What of the source of such content you might ask. Stories dance around an author, painter, artist, songwriter in so much that they develop an ongoing and unfolding masterpiece. These stories create remarkable...
Ai technology has finally come of age and the integration into digital society has begun. There are still many questions about where all this is heading. Despite this, technology giants are obsessed with ensuring task specific Ai will soon be common place in the popular tools we use day to day. This means humans will be building ai into their existing applications, looking for use cases in...
The ability to work together towards common goals has been fundamental to the ongoing success of the human species. This has been successfully demonstrated at a group level but as groups get larger these groups become more complex with diverging goals. In the case of climate change, humans of the present moment have obligations to their families but some also to their shareholders. As a...
Let’s get this cleared up right from the start. I have invested in Tesla and not just because they have a “why” they do things mantra. They are simply more innovative than their competitors. They are solving problems that matter in todays society and are critical to the future of humanity. Tesla is a company that has evolved beyond the profit motive and I respect that. The fact that they have a...
The delivery room was spotless, white, clinical. The mother lay exhausted, breathing, smiling. She had only a single thought…“Oh my god he’s beautiful.” The baby let out that familiar cry all parents long to hear. No language or words, just a sound loud enough to get immediate attention. It’s mother understood…the babies cry meant “im here, I am alive and I have arrived.” Everyone breathed a sigh...
WARNING before reading any further, my latest story is more dystopian than usual and has unsettling covid themes…discretion is advised… Here is some background on why I wrote this….“Our industrialised planet is hurting, its time to heal and return to balance. We live in a world obsessed with increasing digitisation. We can learn to live with nature or attempt to escape into the digital. We might...
We have a wide range of conscious experiences. Are you interested in a “human interface” today or perhaps you would like to be a “Cat…” “I am not sure, whats the difference?” NJ368B Algorithm replied. “Let me tell you my friend…have you ever wanted to run free, not a care in the world. You will feel your soft fur blowing in the wind. You will have no real responsibility other than to eat, sleep...
Marc Andreessen famously said “Software will eat the world…” Todays fastest growing companies like Netflix and Amazon are software companies. The rest of the world is trying to catch up… Companies of all shapes and sizes require massive amounts of digitisation moving forward. Immersive reality and a metaverse is coming. Robots, automation and the internet of things are close to reality. The...
Digital media can be very seductive to a busy mind. Consuming frequent news and social media content keeps the mind unsettled and compulsive. It’s easy to feel busy and at work when consuming media, yet any heavy user knows this is far from the truth. There is rarely anything truly productive from a digital consumption compulsion other than loss of focus. When your dominant training of the mind...