Benjamin Lupton’s Blog

Google and Facebook Privacy Concerns

They have more users than any government has citizens. They have more data on users than any government has. Yet goverments scare people?

The “give a fuck” line.

Some learnings from a year of giving a fuck about what I know and don’t know to discover where the sustainability line becomes…

Learnings Recap / June 6th 2015

• Hitch hiking forces you to see the good in everyone. As anyone could be your next ride, and as you can’t be picky, you have to leave your prejudices behind. You will hop in the car with people you wouldn't normally associate with, you will come to understand them, and…

A different way to see Google.

What I saw when my veil came off.

Google has always been my dream place of working, or at least until a recent experience that made me see them… differently.

Compiling resources that changes minds from what changed you

Extend the definition of software to include anything that programs one’s mind. Using that definition, take note of all the items that have programmed your own mind, compile them into a curated package that you can then use…

How the new iPhone will change my life.

The first and last iPhone I owned was the iPhone 4 which I acquired on launch day in Australia. Before that I used a touchscreen LG phone for 2 years.

The iPhone was a love hate relationship, the camera was okay at capturing everyday moments, and the apps were…

What people don’t see

I think perspective is like a colour spectrum.

When you see someone, you can only see the colours of their external spectrum that relate to your own internal spectrum, unknowingly disregarding the rest.

What do I like, what do I dislike…

Making a billion high-scale businesses? Achieving high-scale outcomes with a low-capital workforce. Scale low-capital, don’t remedy it. Creating mimetically incentivised tribes (memes are low-cost incentive devices)…