A while back I watched Netflix’s sports documentary, In Search of Greatness. It’s a superb film that explores the question ‘what makes exceptional sportspeople exactly that in their chosen endeavours?’. There was of course lots of commentary on the similarities between these greats in terms of focus, encouraging/empowering parents, time…

Like everyone, I’ve been talking with friends and colleagues about what we might want to do differently in a post-COVID-19 world. There’s certainly a recognition that people are open to changes in how some key technology themes play out — potentially moving away from the course that we’d convinced ourselves…

According to one element of Dan Geer’s super-interesting paper on systemic technology risk ‘The Rubicon’, conducting the same activity through parallel but unrelated systems (electronic and cash payments, for example) is fundamental to countering the increase in today’s cascading risk caused through technological convergence/efficiency. If one system is compromised when…

The EU’s three year (Sept 2016 to Aug 2019) Aeolix (Architecture for European Logistics Information Exchange) project was developed and co-funded by the European Union and European IT Public-Private-Partnership/consortia vehicle Ertico as an experiment to “develop, test and gather learnings on the effectiveness of a new open-architecture platform and common…

Marcus Aurelius. Viktor Frankl. Nelson Mandela. For these greats (and I’m sure many more people), a key theme runs through much of their work and ideas — being is better than telling. It’s tough sometimes when resilience is low, like at the end of a long day when you’re hungry…

For the last two years, we at the company I work for have been building many of the ‘big rocks’ (technical/data infrastructure) required to support (1) enhanced operational efficiency through the business and (2) the ability to sustainably create new, digitally-enabled products & services. The work has been hard, complex…

Teaching to See, a short movie about Designer and Educator Inge Druckrey is directed by one of my heroes, Edward Tufte. …

“There isn’t one novel thought in all of how Berkshire [Hathaway] is run. It’s all about … exploiting unrecognized simplicities… It’s a community of like-minded people, and that makes most decisions into no-brainers. Warren [Buffett] and I aren’t prodigies. We can’t play chess blindfolded or be concert pianists. But the…