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February 10, 2012

The most amazing thing about Leonard Cohen being number three on Billboard is that it only took 41,000 records to get there. Adele’s been at the top end of the charts for 19 weeks now, but number one – Lana Del Rey – got there with 76,000 copies of her ‘Born To Die.’ Twenty years [...]

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Caught in an information rip?

January 12, 2011
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Being interconnected and tapped into the global flow of data has its risks. Personal risks, global risks, fundamental challenges like the mass extinction of Australia’s biodiversity. But there’s also the very real chance of good – the ability to understand each other, to have richer, far more fulfilling experiences, to come up with new ideas, to solve some of these big problems. Finding the balance is crucial.

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Do things #2

December 9, 2010

The more we do more things, the more important good project management gets, and that is something I struggle with. Fortunately a string of start ups are here to help. Better Means is for enterprise projects, i.e the ones with a few people involved. For the first time in a little while, I’m not running [...]

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Reading #6

December 6, 2010

Reading Steven Johnson’s book, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that people around us affect our creative potential. The, uhh, Art of Manliness doesn’t examine the why, what or when, but it does look at the who of what it calls Master Minds – CSS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Theodore Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin’s inner circles [...]

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