In a world where technology is constantly advancing, simple yet ingenious inventions can capture our attention. The humble flywheel, often overlooked, these rotating wonders possess an appeal that inspires me, especially now that I am more and more involved with the...
“An idea ahead of its time” Bet you heard that before. I have not only heard about it, I have lived through these, at least a couple of times trying to be way too cute and not getting the timing right. Just two examples: wanting to can coconut water in...
I bet you heard about “The Third Place”. The concept was more in the popular media once Starbucks started to talk about it. If you have never heard about it, your first place is your home, your second place is work, and then we all have this need to escape...
We love to demonize the press. The “mainstream media”. They are out to manipulate us. Some of the more extreme argue that we should just get all our news and information (and therefore facts) from the uncensored, uncurated social media platforms, like...
We need some resistance. I do. Nowhere is this more palpable than when you are in the water. You can feel the water pushing against you as you move. And that is a good thing, because paddling, pushing the water away from you, is what propels us forward. There is also...
You don’t need to go deeply into differential calculus or any heavy math to apply one of the Enrico Fermi’s most known techniques. Fermi gave us the first nuclear reactor and studied cosmic radiation and spiral galaxies. But the one thing that Fermi gave...
We are still in the middle of one of the biggest transformations in humanity. I am thinking digitization. Sure, there are many others that are happening simultaneously and digitization started a while ago. That’s how innovation works, with “nested S...
There is always at least one path of least resistance. That is less effort than any other. Partner behavior, sales focus, water, tend to flow in that direction. Most times it is also correlated with the status quo, and with our comfort zones. When we seek to make...
Most of us don’t live in the Médoc in France, nor have unlimited resources to throw at our cellar, much less walk around with our personal sommelier. In consequence, we order wine, or we open a bottle at home, and is not that good. It may be too sweet, or too...
You are standing at the same place. It is what it is. You have bee hiking for the last four hours. One foot in front of the other. Negotiating the rocks, the roots. Turning each switchback in expectation of being closer to the summit. Just the occasional sip of water...
“That’s just look and feel” The “real” thing is what’s running behind it. Or so they say. I you subscribe to thins thinking, you may be missing a fundamental fact. User Interface, or where people interact with something, is where...
With all the talk about regulating AI, we hear the extremes coming to light. You have those that think we should just let everything run its course, and then there are some that think that we need a “kill switch”. Others believe we need to have a human in...
Looking back into how we imagined the future can be fascinating. We have all snickered when watching the Jetsons and we have turned “where’s my jet pack” into kind of a critique of predictions in general. THIS ARTICLE was a featured article on...
The usually accepted thinking, is that the past shapes our present. We look into history to understand who we are. We even have a maxim in digital communications that goes “the best prediction of the next sample, is the immediately prior one”. All of these...
When it comes to our Channel ecosystem, and in all honesty, pretty much everything else, we can take a lesson out of our chemistry course. My wife, who is a PhD in Biochemistry will roll her eyes if she reads this, but here I go: Size matters. When recruiting partners...
My anniversary was a few days ago. Of course I did get a gift, and I did make a reservation for dinner. But on this day, I like to wake up my wife to the aroma of flowers, but I don’t want the flowers to whither overnight, so I had to make a customary dash in...
We live in a world of A-lists. It is very easy to hear it “straight from the horse’s mouth”. If a celebrity is on Twitter, or any other platform, we can just follow them, watch their videos on YouTube or perhaps buy their book. That is wonderful....
Ever since ChatGPT made release 3.5, there has been more and more interest, and all kinds of people have been giving it a go. But I have the sense that many of us have also taken the approach that at least I like to go with when meeting someone new. We have trusted...
When we are optimistic, we are more likely to take risks and try new things. We are more likely to believe in ourselves and our abilities, and to take action towards our goals. We are also more likely to stay positive and resilient in the face of adversity. This is...
According to OpenAI ChatGPT, a process is a series of steps or actions that are taken in order to achieve a particular result. It is a way of doing something, typically involving a number of separate stages, each of which contributes to the overall outcome. Processes...
Most partner programs look alike, and some of them look like they would’ve been thrown together from whatever was available. But organizations that don’t place enough care in how they design their partner programs may be wasting a huge opportunity to create and...
Before you do anything else, ask yourself: “What is the one thing that I can (and must) do today to get me closer to my goals?” If you do nothing else, do that one thing. It will be worth more, and you’ll feel more satisfied than after a full day of...
So many models today include this concept, but what is a flywheel? IRL, it is a massive -like with a lot of mass- wheel that keeps turning. Every internal combustion engine has one, where its function is to smooth out the motion originating from the cylinders pushing...
There is nothing worse than getting caught in something that you did not expect, that you did not prepare for. When you know something is coming, it allows you to build the necessary skills, strength, or resources to be in a better position. In addition, it also...
If we don’t have the will, we’ll never get things done. We may never even get started. Hannibal (not the fictional serial killer of “Silence of the Lambs”, but the Carthaginian general), has been recognized as one of the greatest military strategists of all times....
