DC Podcast: Spec-tacular (spec for a spec)
This is a ‘spec for a spec’ pulling together some threads from This is Marketing (‘The Simple Marketing Promise’, ‘Marketing in five steps’ and ‘Simple… Read More »DC Podcast: Spec-tacular (spec for a spec)
This is a ‘spec for a spec’ pulling together some threads from This is Marketing (‘The Simple Marketing Promise’, ‘Marketing in five steps’ and ‘Simple… Read More »DC Podcast: Spec-tacular (spec for a spec)
Have fun, learn lots, work hard, be kind. If you hadn’t learnt, you’d be dead. If other people hadn’t learnt, it’s much less likely you’d… Read More »Motto (2): Learn lots
Here’s a DC-related hitlist for the first part of 2019… images link to Amazon UK. The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution… Read More »A reading list for 2019
Niall Ferguson was speaking at the Long Now Foundation, responding to a question from Stewart Brand about how ads and the profit-motive influenced the nature… Read More »Scrapbook: Niall Ferguson on culture, text-for-profit, libraries, search and literacy
Steve Jobs is right about changing the world. And here’s Edmund Burke with a counterpoint – for society read ‘society’, but also, ‘family’, and ‘your… Read More »Stability: Burke and incremental change
A selection of favourite posts… On Literacy and Education Interesting problems: a definitionDeep Literacy: what it takesEducation for the future: which kids are ours? (1)The… Read More »DriverlessCroc: Greatest Hits
Here’s the intuition: New technologies – including ideas, techniques and ways of thinking, as well as physical tools – very often come from the creative… Read More »Anything yet
This is the sixth-and-half post in a series applying Seth Godin’s rules of bootstrapping (see also here) to building a non-profit organisation. Scale and the Free Prize Inside We left… Read More »Bootstrapping the non-profit organisation Rule 6: Scale is not a Reward (2)
Imagine you are in charge of developing an artificial intelligence. Your AI has the ability to move into the world and mingle with human beings,… Read More »Intelligences
Hardware is important. Physical infrastructure like roads and the electrical grid, machines like drills, buses and computers, even your office space – all of this… Read More »Hardware / Software