3 Hacks for 21st century Women Leaders
Learn to love your data! I can't emphasize enough how powerful and practical your decision-making can become with this layer of clarity applied to your business, health, life. Women battle the bias of being labelled as making more emotional/irrational decisions. One of the greatest gifts that computing has offered us is overlooked as something...
Go Follow Yourself
It’s been going on quietly for years; the brains and bodies of nerds and athletes have been coupled to all manner of sensors and data-netting gizmos (voluntarily and without medical intervention) from heart-rate monitors, biofeedback fingerware, sleep trackers, wearable cameras, oximeters, accelerometers, blood-pressure cuffs, GPS to old-fashioned stopwatches employed to track and map the...
Don’t wait
“Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.“ – Mary Manin Morrissey There are those whose genius radiates from the heart. Their gift is not an EQ thing, it’s a steady, clear goodness that isn’t saintly or soppy either. It’s strong and funny and easy to be around, but...
When thinking gets too expensive
What luck for rulers, that men do not think. – Adolph Hitler The Internet is a copy machine. At a fundamental distribution level, but also at the human content level. Copying what we see and like, or realise gets results, is one of the keys to how humans have been such a successful species. What...
What makes Genius : Part 6 : Context
Almost all struggles for those infected with genius is a struggle of context. Wrong place, wrong time and the gift isn’t activated. Or is only realised well after their lives have played out. When things are set in the right context we have a sense of their relevance to us. Life flourishes in a relatively...
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...
Games (borrowed brains : bookmarks)
Superb reads around understanding where we’re at: philosophically, physiologically and practically with games. << Dive into my current bookmarks on games. Bits on game design, pervasive gaming, blended-reality games played on the streets, how gaming shapes our brains. If you’re amazed that games can command their own economies – with global heft or that mainstream...
Astronomy quick.fixes for starry.eyed wannabes
One of the delights of living in the Southern Hemisphere has to be its dense, dazzling night sky. Meandering to open spaces where the urban light veil falls away, yields a blaze of stars, the Milky Way (the Galactic Centre and magellanic clouds, a southern sky speciality), even man.made space objects twinkling back at us....
new social currency ATM : the Maverick mojo is back
It’s hard to quantify the small dizzy delight we find in discovering something out in the world that simply makes us happy, no explanation needed. Julie Andrews floods the mental stereo like peach-sugar (what, you have no idea what I mean? see the video at the end to absorb the culture young weedhopper).. Maverick magazine...
Geekgirls: Silicon.Free in the Silicon Cape?
I’m back in Cape Town next week for some wrap.up lectures at UCT, seeing beloved friends & family, working & meeting frenzies ..and catching the grand launch of Silicon Cape (last year’s World Mayor, now premier of the province, Helen Zille will be speaking to assure the gravitas of this endeavour). Since the tech...
Does your Geography determine your Destiny?
[On being in the right place, at the right time] So here I am,1 still in Johannesburg, Joburg, Jozi, the District 9 city. The African version of LA. The rough & tough old mining town that I was born in. esCAPEd from. And evidently needed to return to make peace with (like an ex-smoker I...
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