I’ve had three mid-life crises, two Damascene conversions and four dozen Big Ideas in the last few years. The doctors, rightly, call it bipolar disorder, and I have a fairly healthy willingness to being told I’m wrong, or to change direction when a wall approaches.

But two Big Ideas in the last couple of [...]

I’ve written a piece for Silicon on Random Walks in the future office.
The central idea is that the future office is about creativity rather than productivity, and that encouraging random walks is a great way of stimulating that creativity.
The article is on Silicon over here and shown below:
Random Walk theory is a funny little idea drawn [...]

Glen Hiemstra is a futurist whose writing I often enjoy. In his latest blog post he writes about a cognitive dissonance which I recognise myself.
In futurist terms, hell in political and life terms, climate-change is the biggest show in town. When respected scientists and the evidence of your own eyes starts to suggest we’re in [...]