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  • Banana Peels & Getting Things Done

    Banana Peels & Getting Things Done

    A team of smart driven people get together in a room, all focused on a project and eager to progress. Two months of meetings later, the project is still drifting along, not quite getting to closure. Have you wondered why this happens? Why do seemingly smart people with the best of intentions slip on the… Continue reading

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  • Myths and the art of iPhone maintenance

    A group of friends pulled me into an interesting debate. Two events happened a couple of days ago; Starbucks announced a promotion for their hundredth store in India, and iPhone X pre-order sold out within minutes. Hotly debated was the sense in these events – why are people lining up for a coffee that’s just… Continue reading

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  • The Song of Socialism II: Penetration

    Social is the new buzzword, and what a loud buzz that is nowadays. In the last post I described my theory of levels of social media – Presence, Participation, Penetration and Platform. Presence was passive, Participation was active entry into the world of social media. Penetration and Platform are quite a bit more complex. This… Continue reading

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  • The Song of Socialism

    Social is the new buzzword, and what a loud buzz that is nowadays. Everyone from sedate bank to hippy dippy start-up wants to be “social”. Being unsocial nowadays is like admitting to a fondness for bellbottoms – hopelessly anachronistic and just a little worrying. Its not unlike the early days of the Internet where everybody… Continue reading

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This blog is about my ramblings on technology and management, gathered from years of trying to do many wonderful and fascinating things with technology. Most importantly I find the interactions of humans with computers fascinating – how the to extract use from computers in their various forms, from washing machines to large language models.

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