Musings

  • Ford cars to become open-source crowd-enabled modular products

    Ford cars to become open-source crowd-enabled modular products

    Only yesterday I was discussing with friends and colleagues potential impacts of 3D printing, how a number of trends and technology advances are combining to put us as the consumer at the centre of product experiences, providing us with unprecedented choice and the ability to co-create as active participants in the design, configuration and even the…

  • Change itself is changing

    Change. We cannot avoid it. Yet we seem to invest more efforts into attempting to shake it off, than we do embracing it. We dress it up in alternative guises, “trends”, “cycles”, “disruption”.

  • Why write?

    Why write?

    Following my last entry Balancing the use of our time, and Henry‘s thoughts building this out Share more, learn more, the following quote provides a timely reminder on the importance of writing for work: As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through…

  • Balancing the use of our time

    Balancing the use of our time

    Earlier today I began reading Julien Smith’s epic post on getting what we want, and whilst I haven’t yet read it all, the following stood out to me: “the way your time should be spent is largely like a pyramid, with a wide base of learning, with a smaller level of acting on top of…

  • Life Worth Living

    This unstable economy and society has shown us that comfort and stability are dead. We need to make our lives worth living. We need to be who we always dreamt of being. Credit: http://almostbohemian.com/you-are-not-your-junk/

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-04-20

    good idea in principle, but will calorie count on restaurant menus be accurate, or need policing? @bhc3 @SameerPatel #health # RT @nachobarrientos:Met @sscullion today. He is indeed a very good speaker and passionate about his job. Keep going that way dude! <gracias! # @nachobarrientos thx for the compliment, was great to be able to talk…