Creating an AI programme and filling it with “the entire terms and conditions of LinkedIn, the ancient poem Beowulf, 400,000 4Chan forum posts and the teachings of Confucius” and using it to inform an album’s lyrics, song titles and artwork creation. It might sound slightly out there, but this is
Speaking up is hard to do, even when you know you should. Learn how to assert yourself, navigate tricky social situations and expand your personal power with sage guidance from social psychologist Adam Galinsky. — People confuse being aggressive with being assretive. Being rude with asserting. Lots of introverts can’t
A great article from The Times on the way children are being taught in Estonia. Learning robotics from the age of seven and with teachers using virtual reality to bring geography, chemistry, history and language classes to life – the country is turning pupils into active participants in their education rather than
I’ve worked with owners and founders for a long time, and during that time I’ve found one thing is almost always true, and that is founders find it incredibly difficult to let go. It’s unsurprising, given that the business they’ve built or are building is their metaphorical baby, but as
Would it be Christmas without a ‘best of’? For the last 12 months, I’ve demolished countless articles and books, I’ve saved them, added them to Trello boards, analysed and drafted (and then re drafted) at least three articles a week for my weekly Rambling On email. Conversations and ideas have
I read a tweet the other day that mentioned Overton Window. Not only a great name for a Eton school leaver, an Overton Window describes how public opinion is nudged along a spectrum so that something unthinkable becomes, at the very least, up for discussion. I know readers of my
Imagine you’re in a meeting, and on more than one occasion, a colleague seemingly hijacks your ideas and raises them as their own. You might – quite rightly – feel irritated. In their book, Connect, authors David Bradford and Carole Robin identify this feeling as a ‘pinch’. Those little feelings of
I’m hardly the first person to feel angry that people still drop litter, but rather than simply whinge, this article from Positive News recognises an impassioned litter picking army emerging in our parks, along our pavements and out in the beautiful British countryside. A great read with a lot of resources. Will
I did some work with Lego in the past. In meeting rooms, they had bowls of bricks, and everyone was encouraged to play with them throughout (the team claimed it encouraged more creative thinking). This memory has always stuck with me, and yet I’ve never returned to it with much
“Words of nuance, words of skill/Words of romance are a thrill/Words are stupid, words are fun/Words can put you on the run…” WordTips counted the words used by 100 modern stars and the 100 greatest singers of all time and added up the number of unique words they used per
