Invisible Digital Book Club Top Picks 2012
Courtesy of Amy FleisherIt is time to review my Book Club Top Picks. I use the term book club loosely because there’s only me.Truth, Lies, and Advertising – Jon Steel – A must read book if you have a...
View ArticleSouplesse and the Cannibal
Image Courtesy of the Guardian He was like an artist, a filmmaker or a painter. You could guess which way the work of art was heading but you didn’t know quite how he was going to get there – Bob...
View ArticleShaping Ideas
Talking headsLooking at early video footage of our three-piece combo at CBGB, I now sense that it was less a band than an outline for a band. It was sketch just the bare-bones musical elements needed...
View ArticleTeaching Kids to Code
I can code. It’s just that I code very badly. In school we had Computer Science classes where, using BASIC, the structure and function of programming were taught.The clue was in the name of the class –...
View ArticleHMV Administration Tipping Point
HMV AdministrationIt doesn’t come as a surprise to hear that HMV has entered into administration. It’s always sad to see a brand you’ve known all your life become irrelevant (see Woolworths).Let’s face...
View ArticlePlanned Obsolescence
Built to LastI love this page on Vitsoe’s site against Planned Obsolescence. It’s a philosophy that it is all too rare in the age of increasing consumption.I wonder how many people take their Ikea...
View ArticleJust Do The Work
I first came across David Hieatt, ex founder of Howie’s and co-founder of Hiut Denim, at a Google Firestarters event in 2012 on entrepreneurship.He’s recently been giving his personal thoughts on the...
View ArticleKickstarter – Overachieving Success
British Airways – Wisdom of crowdsI was walking through Victoria Station the other day and there was a queue for a British Airways check-in simulator. Consumers were queueing up without really knowing...
View ArticleLight Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery
Courtesy of arthistoryabroad.comThis weekend I took my family to see the popular light exhibition at the Hayward Gallery on London’s South Bank. Whether consciously or unconsciously this comes off the...
View ArticleKnown Knows and Unknown Knows
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are...
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