Year: 2015
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Post of the Month – January 2015 – The Vote
Bit of a longer list in this month’s vote including a video talk nominated by Dan which is a break from the norm but deserves it’s place in our shortlist. So this month’s vote is between: The Dunning-Kruger Peak of Advertising by Eaon Pritchard Pulp Viral by Dan Weingrod A Mile Wide, An Inch Deep by Ev Williams…
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Post Of The Month – January 2015 – Nominations
A couple of nominations already along with a particularly rich reading month mean that we have a longer than usual starting list for this months Post of the Month vote, but lots of good stuff. If you have something that you've read (and that was posted in January) and would like to nominate alongside these please…
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Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others
In following rabbit holes whilst researching the book I came across this interesting piece on what makes some teams smarter than others. This, as the authors (Professors from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon, the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, and Union College) point out, is an important question given how many decisions of significance are made…
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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…