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AI is here, and it's coming for your job sooner than you think. Stop sleepwalking through the biggest labor crisis humanity has ever faced and prepare for the inevitable economic upheaval.
Read articleWhen I was a kid, my Mum always said 'learn to cook, people always need to eat'. This is wisdom. What is also wisdom is that, just as people need to eat, they also like to have sex. So that is a...
Forget the squabbling nations; the real power play is between the 'blocs' – those lumbering political cliques – and the 'whales' – the mega-corporations that treat us like digital plankton. We’re being squeezed, folks. Either you’re in a gang (a bloc), or you're lunch (for a whale). The problem? Blocs are bureaucratic dinosaurs, and whales are fast, ruthless, and largely unaccountable. So, yeah, good luck with that whole freedom thing.
As you might know - I like to walk. So on the 10th of September I’ll be heading to Santander in beautiful Cantabria, Spain to complete the walk I started in June 2016. The Camino Del Norte st...
Might helping people who consider suicide, to feel less trapped and more in control, be helpful to managing suicidal thoughts?
In Spain, we call New Year's Eve night - 'noche vieja', and as the night ebbs away, leaving seconds left of the year that was - you are meant to 'quickly' eat a grape for every second of the last 12 s...
There is a time between waking and rising. I find that time to be particularly full of insights and reflections. Today - I have been pondering this 'we, the people' concept that is often used to ju...
One goal, which path would you take? Imagine you had a goal - perhaps to lose weight or to learn a skill, or even to build some capacity/capability as a person, team, company or country. Lets c...
I have people who instantly make me smile. Others who, as the interactions proceed, get me really irritated. I have people who help me slow down and think deeply, questioning with respect and le...
I'm terrible at focusing and single-flow discipline, so I tend to practice the Pomodoro technique - which is about enforced habit of working for short, concentrated bursts, taking a short breaks and l...
A very bizarre set of events led me to discover Mo Gawdat and his movement onebillionhappy. This highly inspiring man who could, by all accounts, be sitting in his wealth, isolated from everything t...
I was recently in a dialogue with a client and the conversation turned to "Evil Scrum" and some previous negative experiences that some people had experienced. They imposed velocity targets and demand...