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The Black Diamond
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Up
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To the west
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Late evening
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Mirror Shot
Mirror Self Shot of Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
Now here
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On Fear
Mark Bernstein on digital education Fear of The Digital runs deep. (….) Our fears are nowhere more visible than in our idiosyncratic compulsion to repeatedly study the same tired, settled questions. Do computers improve writing? Do links improve reading?…. (…) … Continue reading
Ten Commandments
via Brainpickings, Bertrand Russell’s ten commandments of teaching: Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as … Continue reading
Why study consumption?
There’s probably no one better placed that Danny Miller to answer this question:
Innovation and autocracy
I’ve long believed that innovation is never just about (or even) about new ideas, funky office spaces, flat hierarchies, skunks works ventures or ‘open-ended’ brainstorming sessions. Instead it’s about structure, process and culture – and, ultimately, leadership. This piece on … Continue reading
Should you check your email?
Painfully spot on, via Explore
Social serfs?
From a thought-provoking Paul Ford article in the New York Magazine on the $1bn Facebook Instagram deal: “When people write critically about Facebook, they often say that “you are the product being sold,” but I think that by now we … Continue reading
Silence and silos
Couple of years old now but well worth watching in full – Gillian Tett, Managing Editor of the FT in the US addresses the 2010 AAA on “Silence and Silos: The Problems of Fractured Thought in Finance”. 2010 AAA Inno-vent: … Continue reading
Internet punditry (1974)
From Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s 1974 collection of essays “The Consciousness Industry; On Literature, Politics and the Media”: The open secret of the new electronic media, the decisive political factor, which has been waiting, suppressed or crippled, for its moment to … Continue reading
And lo! There was evening light…
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Anthropology and the abduction of strategy
I gave a talk last week at a UK UPA event on ethnography in design and innovation. I somewhat subverted the intent of the session by not talking about ethnography but instead focused on anthropology. My argument being that the … Continue reading
90 minutes of business wisdom
Professor Clayton Christensen talks models of disruptive innovation, what the job of your product is and explains why there will always be room for disruptive innovation an entrepreneurs in the world. From the rise of Sony and the transistor radio, … Continue reading
The view from the office on a cold, crisp afternoon
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The Danish word for my flat is hygge: cozy.
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