Category: Technology
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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…
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Tech Bros as ‘Benefit Queens’
Very interesting piece here that’s resurfaced from 2022. In short – Elon and his super-wealthy tech bros are very often critical of federal government giving too many handouts – and employing too many in government roles – but are actually the biggest ‘benefit queens’ going, benefiting to the tune of billions support for their companies:…
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Street-level innovation & Building meso-narratives.
Really good report out this week from an excellent acquaintance, Rachel Coldicutt, who runs Careful Industries. It is possible to rapidly spark a culture of inclusive innovation across the UK, that begins in neighbourhoods and forms a golden network of locally rooted community incubator organisations, supported by long-term investment and clear success measures. As well…
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The Future of Work and Wellbeing
It’s been quiet around here, mostly because my energies have almost exclusively been focused delivering a conference and 180 page report for the closing of the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing. This is a major, 3-year research project completed with multi-million funding from the Nuffield Foundation exploring how AI and automation…
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Darwin Award Nominee – Rigging ChatGPT to an Assault Rifle
This will either end badly for him. Or for all of us. Truly, the Age of Stupid 😬
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God-like ‘most compelling radical theology text I have read’
Many thanks to Tripp Fuller for including God-Like in his top 20 reads for 2024. Thrilled to have that generous support for the book from someone who reads a LOT, and is an all round very smart thinker too. Some great other books on the list too – including my friend Tad Delay’s excellent exploration…