Smart Home: The Time is Now

I spent this morning in a John Lewis store on Oxford Street, at the launch of its new Smart Home demonstration…

The Queen Mother’s Fridge

One of the more odd inspirations for a round of radio interviews came yesterday from the Queen Mother’s fridge…

The past is always with us

Sometimes people mistake the future for the absence of the past. As if all the things we have created in each…

The New Influencers

A few years back the marketing team for a big tech firm asked me to come in and talk to them about my role as a blogger and…

Teaching autonomy to staff… and robots

One of the challenges of being the boss of a (very) small company is that the challenges of…

Skills and Crafts

In preparation for a talk later this year, I’m starting to take a look at the HR and recruitment space, getting to grips with…

Friction starts fires, but ambition changes worlds