Category: work
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Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon all to build giant data centers near Taupo in New Zealand
Actually, it’s not true. Let me state categorically that Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon are not going to build massive data centers near Taupo in New Zealand. Or anywhere in the Southern hemisphere that I am aware of. And at least not any time soon. However, I got to thinking about this recently. What if…
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Why I Am Afraid of Email And The 7 Scary Things I Did About It
I am afraid of email I’m afraid of email. I had a bad experience. It might be because I couldn’t answer the nearly 10,000 emails that had accumulated in my inbox. The year was 2010. Or was it 2011. I can’t actually remember now. But the thing that happened was that I had a baby.…
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You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
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Jaron Lanier is my guru… He thinks that I’m not a gadget and this book – which is his first – is a rant against the negative effects of technology including the internet.
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Grown Up Digital
How the net generation is changing your world Don Tapscott undertook some research back in the late 20th century (1997…) and wrote it up in a book called Growing Up Digital. It was a book about what it meant for the generation that his kids were in – to be growing up in a digital…
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Superfreakonomics
Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, & Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. This is the brilliant sequel to the bestselling phenomenon Freaknomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner which we’ll review at some stage as well. Basically, this is a book about numeracy. At least, that’s how I’ve read it… It was my numeracy…
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How to avoid work-related bipolar disorder
Some days I love my work. Other days I hate it. Love hate love hate. That’s usually the way it goes. On Monday I want to take over the world. On Tuesday I want to sell the business because I can’t stand it. On Wednesday, I’m on fire. On Thursday, I want to throw myself…
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3 things I learned from my Uncle Keith (RIP) about life and business
My Uncle Keith… actually my Great Uncle Keith passed away a couple of days ago. He was a great guy. I didn’t really know him that well, but regardless I feel that he was a valuable part of my childhood and I really think I learned a couple of important things from him for life…