Buried within the plethora of news coming out of the Google IO event yesterday is that Google are apparently including security features that Samsung have developed under the brand Knox into the next release of Android. I don't know anything about Knox, but the concept at a high level seems to me to … Continue reading The work/not work divide
A couple of weeks ago I got into a rather spirited conversation on Twitter with, amongst other people, Charles Arthur of The Guardian and Max Tatton-Brown contributor to The Telegraph. It's scary that my descent into middle age is flagged by the fact that I seem to be agreeing with the latter much more than the former … Continue reading The price of data, the cost of privacy
A slight tweak to the format this week is celebration of my 200th weeknote... This week I have learned: - toddlers adapt to jet leg much better than old farts - HE & FE institutions seem to be amongst the most social-network savvy of all institutions I talk to - Google Glass can provide for … Continue reading Weeknote 200: this week I have learned…
Let's be blunt here, I'm a bit of a show off. There is nothing I like better than telling stories in front of a crowd of people. It's exhilarating, I find it great fun, and there's nothing quite like the feeling of knowing that you've got an audience hanging on your every word (or even … Continue reading On speaking…
As I talk with people across a range of organisations about innovation and disruption, a common theme emerges - that of how we need to be able to become more accepting of failure. Failure is how we learn. We need to fail fast and fail often. It strikes me that, whilst the sentiment is … Continue reading Banning failure
Here's an interesting little connection for you... Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google, both went through Montessori education. The Montessori method has, at its core, a belief that children are natural learners and that learning therefore should be more child- rather than knowledge-centric than traditional approaches. Google appears to want to make rote … Continue reading Book review: Curious
There is an established narrative these days that runs along the lines of "Ooh. Isn't everything happening much more quickly these days?" Looking at some of the numbers, I reckon the answer is "no"... The chart above shows the adoption rates for various technologies. The internet (red line) was first used as a term by Vint … Continue reading Is it really happening that quickly?
There is a school of scientific thought prevalent in psychology and behavioural economics that sees fact emerging from rigorous, controlled experimentation. As a result much of what we understand about the way in which we think is derived from the observation of undergraduates performing laboratory tasks. Whilst there is much that can be learned from … Continue reading Book review: Seeing what others don’t
A slightly different take this week, as this post marks my 1,000th entry since I started on this blogging lark some seven years ago, and also my last for a few weeks as I head off on a well-needed holiday with my family. I've been thinking a lot in recent weeks about why I do … Continue reading Weeknote 198: why I blog…
