Month: January 2015
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015 from We Are Social Singapore Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: Very useful – just about every digital stat you could want in one deck And this is interesting – Tumblr launching an in-house creative lab crowdsourcing from their 420m users A thought-provoking post from Simon Veksner on overvaluing extroverts and…
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Blogging and Lazy Endism
As ever Adam, who is just so good at blogging, is on the money with his view on it too. The fact that Andrew Sullivan has stopped writing a blog has led some to catch a nasty dose of lazy endism. But as Adam says, blogging has simply evolved (Medium, Tumblr et al), and so…
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The Digital Board
"If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near." Jack Welch (N.B. This post is part of an occasional series I'm doing, drawing from some of the thinking that's going into the book I'm writing – any feedback is appreciated) In today's world, slow…
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The Difference Between Good and Bad Organisations
I'm reading The Hard Thing About Hard Things which is excellent. Part of what makes the book unusually good is that it draws a lot from Ben Horowitz's personal experience launching and running a series of companies before becoming a VC. And he's very honest, focusing often on the decisions made when things were not going…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: I loved this idea – using Google Streetview to safely treat Alzheimers. Check out the video An excellent post from Dave Trott on how advertising agencies are becoming the 'gift wrapping department' A good summation from Mike Arauz at Undercurrent of common characteristics across their list of the most responsive organisations of 2014…
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Theologising Algorithms and Data
I read a lot of stuff that talks about how much of our present and future, particularly in the context of information and content discovery, are being governed by algorithms and I think we're in danger of overplaying their role. So this highly thought-provoking piece in The Atlantic by Ian Bogost made for an interesting read. Ian…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: Beautiful travel posters made by NASA featuring actual exoplanets? OK then. Re-building history's biggest dot-com bust. Can Instacart (which recently secured $220m in funding) make it where WebVan didn't? Danah Boyd talks sense about the well-shared teenager's view of social media Lengthy but excellent read about the making of Pulp Fiction Sam Altman on…
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Firestarters NYC – Creativity in a Constrained World
Really pleased to say that hot on the heels of our first ever Google Firestarters in New York there will be a second event on 22nd January at 5.30pm, Google HQ NYC. This one will be taking 'Creativity in a Constrained World' as its theme, focusing on some of the topics explored on Adam Morgan's…
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The Digital Native Organisation
The term ‘digital native’ was originated in 2001 by researcher Marc Prensky to describe people who were born after 1980 and that have grown up never knowing a way of life other than one that is mediated by networked digital technologies. 'Digital immigrants' of-course, are those people that may be quite sophisticated in their use of such…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
10 trends for 2015 from Dan Calladine Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: Dan Calladine had an excellent set of trends for the coming year (above) Some really interesting views on the future of privacy drawn from research by Pew A fascinating look at designing the best board game on the planet Shane Parrish's blog and newsletter…