Category: innovation
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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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I’m Writing a Book
I'm not big on New Years resolutions but I thought it a fitting time to put something out there by way of a personal ambition for the coming year. I'm going to write a book. It has been a long held aspiration of mine to do this but the reality of running my own business…
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Flexible Technology Stacks
One of the areas that I think companies find hardest to let go of is the concept of locked-down technology stacks. There's no doubt a number of good historical reasons why it was once important to maintain rigid controls over the technologies your staff use, but with the plethora of advanced, secure tools and systems…
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Protecting Against Obsolete Beliefs
'When experts are wrong, it’s often because they’re experts on an earlier version of the world. Is it possible to avoid that? Can you protect yourself against obsolete beliefs? To some extent, yes. I spent almost a decade investing in early stage startups, and curiously enough protecting yourself against obsolete beliefs is exactly what you…
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The Problem With Powerpoint
Much used, and yet so much maligned. Poor Powerpoint. Latest in a long line of detractors is Evernote CEO Phil Libin who, at Le Web the other day, said that Powerpoint is a 'lot of what's wrong with the world today' and that Office software was partly to blame for making work 'unpleasant for many people'.…
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Systematic Survival Bias
Thanks to Tim Harford's latest column for pointing me at lessons from the story of Amercian Mathematician and Statistician Abraham Wald. In 1943, Wald was part of a group asked to advise the US air force on how they might reinforce their planes to prevent so many of them being lost on bombing raids to enemy…
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Google Firestarters NYC – The New Operating System for Agencies
Last Wednesday Ben Malbon and I hosted the first ever Google Firestarters in the US. We took as our theme ‘The New Operating System for Agencies’, a subject that had elicited much debate when we ran it in the UK and one that Mel Exon (who spoke at that event) called at the time ‘a hairy,…