Like the Elizabethan Merchants of Light, my work is to track down, contexualize and share unusual cultural, scientific, technological wares (even occasional genius) & tools from many varied worlds, for your pleasure and profitable use.

I speak, research, tinker, teach on evolving systems.
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Unboxed: find the reluctant geniuses in your midst

Unboxed: find the reluctant geniuses in your midst

“People who believe in the power of talent tend not to fulfill their potential because they’re so concerned with looking smart and not making mistakes. But people who believe that talent can be developed are the ones who really push, stretch, confront their own mistakes and learn from them.” – Carol Dweck (Stanford Psychology professor, whose...
Ideas are copyrightable. Right? Uh oh

Ideas are copyrightable. Right? Uh oh

Have you been feeling a bit sketchy about what you can do with other people’s work online, how to protect your own intellectual property, and how to make creative-wares using other artists’ works to enhance your own, without skidding into potentially dangerous infringement/piracy hazards, or shelling out $$$ in clearing the licenses to use them?...
Learn to sell your art, so you don't have to sell your soul

Learn to sell your art, so you don’t have to sell your soul

And I use “art” very loosely here when I mean the creative products of your head and your hands and the tools you use to extend the reach of both. Whether writers, filmmakers, musicians, webdesigners, potters, poets, dancers, landscapers, crafters, carpenters, architects, hatters; whatever the avenue for the creative imperative to realise itself, these endeavours...
DIGITAL MARKETING GUIDEBOOK

DIGITAL MARKETING GUIDEBOOK

This isn’t a textbook, it’s a guidebook to the digital territories for marketers, think travel-guide. Because frankly, we’re over the dull course-reader format. Those who come on our programs can dive into their alumni networks with links and videos and presentations, but it’s still handy to scribble on something during lectures or to follow along...
So you think you can change the world ..um, yes

So you think you can change the world ..um, yes

No grand 10th century castle – you couldn’t get there on a steam train from secret King’s Cross platforms – but this seemingly unexceptional building at 9 Ntemi Piliso Street, downtown Johannesburg is brimming and buzzing with magic. The Defense against the Dark Arts is for real. Here they’re battling the very real forces of...