Blog

  • Social Transparency and being a parent

    Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn – and many others to come, I am sure. They allow us to share fragments of our lives. For myself, and my social “network” the sharing is...

  • Parallels with the Great Depression etc.

    Wondering aloud… There’s a lot of content written trying to compare our current problems with events of the 1970’s or 1930’s. For example, in the comments to [this post](http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/03/call_off_depres.html). I...

  • Chemical Engineering & The Future

    Found an tnteresting presentation on how Chemical Engineering can help solve the very real problems we’re facing – [get it here](http://www.bostonanalytics.com/leading_thoughts_research/how_chemical_engineering_will_drive_the_21st_century.pdf). Not sure where I found this – probably somewhere...

  • Viewing the global Twitter conversation

    [This is a really cool animation](http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d)[](http://twitter.com), showing Twitter in use across the globe – you really get a sense that it’s a global conversation. Of course, they must be showing...

  • Letting kids do “dangerous” stuff

    This is a great TED talk on kids at play – and of course, how kids need to learn to play with things that we might feel is “dangerous” but...

  • Why play is vital at work

    This is a really interesting talk from TED on why play is important – just as sleeping, dreaming etc. are. We play a lot at work, sometimes what you might...