Google X, Suits, and Robots. This week’s Shortlist. 19/8/2014

Sit back and read up on what’s new in your digital world this week.

Athan Didaskalou
1 min readAug 19, 2014

Interesting insight happens when patients read what their doctors write.

“Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit” — Suitable disruption from Peter Theil and The Economist.

Stop building products nobody wants – How to validate your business idea.

“If you’re measuring and optimising response and conversion, digital marketing is essentially direct marketing with pixels, not print.” — Learning from direct, via DT Content Director Gordon McNenney.

I liked everything I saw on Facebook for two days. Here’s what it did to me. (be careful what you Like out there)

The truth about Google X.

“Intelligence becomes a utility. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could talk to everything, and it knew you, and it knew everything about you, and it could do everything?

And, should your driverless car kill you to save a child? Philosophical questions for a Tuesday afternoon.

Stay classy Internet

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”
- Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA founder

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Athan Didaskalou

“You’re born with 30,000 days to live. The best strategic planning I can give to you is to think about that”. Founder @3000thieves , Strategy consulting, & more