AI is reshaping the digital workforce and our relationship with work. They are interconnected. We are witnessing and experiencing a significant upheaval in both the nature of work and the composition of the workforce. Not knowing what or how you’ll work a year from now injects fear, uncertainty, and doubt into the system. However, consider … Read more
I’m a big fan of Peter Diamandis’s 6D framework used to describe the exponential growth and impact of emerging technologies. It depicts how technology moves from ’emerging’ to ’emerged’. The rate of technological change starts with digital and moves deceptively slowly under the radar until its true disruptive impact becomes clear to the few. Once … Read more
Following on from my last post, I decided to spend a little more creative time in the metaverse. Basically, sidestepping all the cryptocurrency noise around the collapse of FTX. So I read The Metaverse Handbook with a forward from Paris Hilton. Short story short, the metaverse is gathering momentum, shifting mindsets, and becoming a movement … Read more
I know when I’m running low on creativity. I stop writing. I’m happiest when I’m learning, and I learn by doing. By creating stuff. Tearing things apart and putting them back together, differently. And then my brain starts popping and I need to get it out, share it, write it up. Otherwise, I would … Read more
I recently listened to a McKinsey podcast that features Miklos talking about the “economy ecosystem“. It put into words something that has been bugging me for a while now about articulating the true role technology plays within organizations of the future. Let me unpack that with a little help from Miklós. I’ve been in the … Read more
We waste a lot of clothes. Fast fashion doesn’t help either. New becomes old faster than old becomes new so we end up with too much. That wouldn’t be a problem except for the fact that it’s environmentally expensive to produce clothes and its waste has a significant negative impact on the planet. Here are … Read more
I think about food a lot. Then I stumbled across this amazing WSJ podcast featuring the renowned food expert Emily Broad Lieb. She shares some seriously disturbing facts about food waste: 330 billion pounds of food waste hits US landfills every year 10% of greenhouse gas emissions are from food waste rotting in landfills In … Read more
Right now thousands of people are washing dishes. Both dishwashers and people are using that abundant supply of water to clean their dirty dishes. However, we all know that water is fast becoming scarce. It’s not abundant. So does this feel right? I recently zoomed into a session run by Reckitt. It’s a huge holding … Read more
If you like something, you’ll use it. A lot. That’s product engagement. I recently listened to John Straw speaking on a McKinsey podcast. I’m sharing his super simple way of thinking about product engagement. Take a look at these two companies: Company A: Makes $1, per 100 users, with 1k interactions per day Company B: … Read more
Cannes Lions Innovation happens every year. This year it’s fully digital. The best of best submit their creative works in the hope of winning. Sadly, Cannes was canned in 2020 due to COVID. So in 2021, there’s two years’ worth of innovative work to judge. I had the honor of joining 9 other judges that … Read more