Category: Books
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Empathy is Over and “Silicon Valley’s New Religion is… Religion”
Fascinating feature in Vanity Fair this month about the rise of conservative Christianity among Tech Bros. Getting High and God-Like, anyone?! Honestly, someone should pay me to be a prophet 😀 One dimension of this is that people are claiming to be wanting to move beyond ‘the atheist liberal world’ that is repainted as ‘just…
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Absolutely nothing dystopian to see here…
Just the UK government “creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill”. Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences. The scheme was originally called the “homicide…
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Anthropy | Motivation
I was fortunate enough to spend a few days last week down at the Anthopy UK event in Cornwall. As their description goes: Anthropy brings together responsible leaders and organisations to look at how to make the UK a better place. Working with a cross-sector network welcoming business and non-profits alike, Anthropy facilitates changing practices,…
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Break
I took one. Over a month since I last posted on the blog. Some stuff happened, but all good. I wasn’t the one who needed it, but please learn CPR, because you never know. Also, taking a break is fine. Content creation… updating socials… you really don’t have to. So, sometimes, don’t. And don’t worry.…
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Frictionless: why free-flows of information are not doing us any good
“Recruitment… it’s just totally broken” This week I was at an event in Bournemouth visiting the excellent Spear project there, and the collaboration they were doing with a job agency, Pollen. One of the young people on the panel that formed part of the event is an advisor in a job centre, and she, and…
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Yes, the audiobook for God-like is coming…
Thanks to everyone who’s requested this. Obviously, I’ve taken the pirate approach… taking control of the means of production… 🏴☠️ … but I’m fortunate to have some good audio production resources built up with various work projects and band stuff over the years. It’s actually quite enjoyable to do… but will require some honing, so…