There are a number of developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence that signal it might be time for a directional change. Progress has been rapid in the last few years and AI is being implemented faster than we’ve had time to fully assess or prepare for. …

For the last few years I’ve been focused on a problem — collecting human sourced recommendations i.e. new content — and getting it to people who need it. The hardest part is that humans don’t always realize what new content they need. It is of course presumptuous to assume what…

Search results are impressive right now. We can access the exact information we want with minimal effort. It’s almost too easy. Start typing and before you’ve finished, the answer pops up. Plus the best thing is that everyone has access. Anyone with Google or DuckDuckGo or Bing or their engine…

Human centered design has been around for a long time. It’s established in many product development or design processes and regarded as an effective way to understand a user’s needs. The ‘human’ focus means it’s a great tool to problem solve and find opportunities in people’s end to end experience…

That question without the parenthesis threw me off. I was being asked about a potential candidate and the hiring manager asked me to choose. ‘Would you say he’s a thinker or a doer?’. It was a simple yes or no question but I was immediately in turmoil at how to…

You may have noticed that increasingly comparisons are being made between social media and unhealthy habits like smoking. It’s not a surprise given that many first generation innovations started life unhealthy until we worked out a better alternative. Social Media The narrative today is that we’ve become unnaturally addicted to our screens…

Why do we say ‘pay’ attention? There is an implication that it costs something to do it. Using that word is closer to the truth that perhaps we realize. After all it costs us time and effort to focus our attention solely on one thing while suppressing the other things…

You might notice an anxiety when you use social media or anywhere with user generated content. Or rather I should say, you might notice anxiety when you haven’t used it in a while. Maybe it’s best described as ‘feed FOMO’. You fear you’ve missed something important in your feeds. In…

First a caveat. I don’t know how established ‘Biocentrism’ is as a theory. My interest in quantum physics led me to theories on reality and consciousness and then I discovered a book published in 2017 called ‘Beyond Biocentrism’ by Robert Lanza (with Bob Berman).It attempts to make some sense of…