Month: July 2024
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Emotion AI
The latest version of Gartner’s hype cycle for Digital Marketing has an interesting addition which they’ve placed almost at the top of the peak of inflated expectation: ‘Emotion AI for marketing’. Gartner VP Nicole Greene describes Emotion AI as using: ‘…AI techniques to analyze the emotional state of a user (via computer vision, audio/voice input,…
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Why cognitive diversity is a superpower
‘If we are intent upon answering our most serious questions, from climate change to poverty, and curing diseases to designing new products, we need to work with people who think differently, not just accurately. And this requires us to take a step back and view performance from a fundamentally different vantage point’ I’m reading Matthew…
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The Three Types of Problem in the World (Redux)
In a complex, fast-changing world situational awareness and the ability to understand context in decision-making is all important. A few years back I described an approach to problem definition (originally from education) based on three fundamentally different types of contexts: simple, complicated, and complex. And I was reminded of just how critical this is only recently. Simple…
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Navigating uncertainty
I loved the approach that Sam Conniff (author of the brilliant Be More Pirate, and the founder of Uncertainty Experts) takes in the latest episode of Google Firestarters to how we should respond to uncertainty in the modern world. His fundamental point is that we have a choice about how we react to unpredictability and…
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On Climbing the Wrong Hill
This week, after first reading it several years ago, I was prompted to return to Chris Dixon’s wonderful post about climbing the wrong hill. The term comes originally from computer science, but to illustrate it he uses the example of a young, smart graduate who works on Wall Street and is considering staying despite hating…