A conversation with Andreas M. Antonopoulos, author of Mastering Bitcoin and The Internet of Money, one of the world’s leading experts on bitcoin and blockchain. — I met Andreas M. Antonopoulos at the inaugural edition of Singularity University Canada Summit in Toronto earlier this fall, where he was breaking down bitcoin/blockchain for a large crowd of business leaders, entrepreneurs and thinkers at Evergreen Brickworks, a former quarry and industrial site reserved for the event. The flurry…

Do you have a dream? Hold that thought. I grew up playing piano. I was 6 or 7, perhaps, when I started. …

Yes, You May Speak To Pizza About This — Hello, is there anybody in there Feeling lonely? Want to talk to your pizza, your car, or your book? The rise of conversational interface brings us a whole new content form, part text, part survey, part chat. The most interesting and fresh application of this that I came across was released today by Typeform. …

Imagine standing in a wind tunnel: you’re doing your best just to keep upright, the noise is overwhelming, and you can’t really see, hear or make sense of whatever someone is shouting at you. That’s how busy people operate, day in and day out. Days jammed with meetings, email, there’s…

Think Wikipedia, Wordpress, Linux, Basecamp, Creative Commons, Buffer. These are just a few examples of organizations and advances possible, because a distributed group of curious people decided to make something cool happen. My Communicable Inc., marketing and problem-solving agency has no bosses, no office, no employees, and a flexible work…

If that question ever occurred to you, you’re more than half way there already, but let’s start at the beginning. It’s my job to think about change, because I come from the future! Ok, it’s because I run a business, a marketing agency with a distributed workforce structure, building/augmenting marketing…

This excellent piece about the role of design got me thinking, does marketing deserve a seat at the table? In other words, what kind of value can marketing create for companies? In a startup context — and I work with startups a lot through Communicable Inc — marketing tends to…

How to build a great product and live a good life — Every day, we encounter extreme complexity, what I like to call a tyranny of abundance. However, the same principles govern our outcomes — those who maintain and design databases know this well — and much of today’s technology makes the invisible principles visible. My favourite principle is the prevalent, omnipresent…

P.S: My colouring book is better than yours. It’s about Star Wars, and Disney hasn’t made it yet (sup Disney). Whoever would predict the popularity and the spotlight all those colouring books are enjoying. What is this? Why do we suddenly love them? Here’s a list of 7 possible reasons for why we either own a copy of Secret Garden, or know someone who does The colouring book invites us to start…