There’s a time and a place, for sure. You don’t knock a person who’s recently died, especially when they did a good job influencing the world in a wonderful way. No doubt Steve Jobs did just that. His presence at the helm of Apple has impacted a
Read more →I must confess I’ve watched this clip three times to get my head around it (both halves, hahaha). Partly because it’s a massive chunk of information presented in a very short space of time, and partly because the animation that it’s presented as occupied my mind enough
Read more →When you meet someone who can’t read and write and would like to learn, you never ever step back and assess their ability, or analyze their character and personality traits to assess whether they can or not? The majority of us will help them find a tutor
Read more →The Steve Jobs biography is launched today digitally. You can get a copy on iTunes or Amazon. It’ll cost you $18.09 on Amazon and $20.55 on iTunes (by my calculations – I only have a UK account for iTunes) You may also want to watch the 60
Read more →I often wonder why we struggle to look backwards and recognise that many of the conversations our ancestors had, as new technology was ushered in, are the same conversations we engage in today? I imagine as the telephone began to gain momentum there were many people who
Read more →Last week, my post around Steve Jobs’ death, was a simple one. A picture of Steve, and the words from the ‘Crazy Ones’ advert. An inspirational advert, that ends with the words, “Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are
Read more →In July 2010 I posted a story about a clip on YouTube of a bunch of guys (including one South African) who were able to walk on water (it’s had over 10 million views). They called it Liquid Mountaineering. Their secret was simple, put on a pair
Read more →If you’ve read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, then you’re probably familiar with one of the ideas he suggests around being born in a certain era, a certain generation, or even a certain month. When you’re born counts, says Gladwell. Some or even all of your success, depending
Read more →Here’s a great InfoGraphic from Good, around some research done by Gallup that tracks the movement of young people with and without education.It raises some important questions for countries included in the study, and for those that aren’t. In a world in which young people find moving
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