Why Dani Can’t Nextsense

In 1990, Robert Fulghum had a surprise hit book. It was a list of simple rules for living that he called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things. The book is still available, but quick summaries can be found online, such...

Don’t Forget Aspiration and Hope

My thoughts for today appear as a guest post on the website of Deb Mills-Scofield [link to her site]. I am honoured to present my thoughts to her many readers! Some history: I began collaborating with Deb in my work on the IE Brown Executive MBA, an innovative program...

The Idea Of Next Goes Way Back

If you Google “end of Internet”, you will actually find many pages that purport to the THE end: the last page of the Internet. Enjoy the fun to be had on this humourous page, but I’m partial to the page Bill Weinman posted in 2006: In a muted...

At The Speed Of Next — Take 1

From time to time, I plan to do a quick tour of links that provoke (at least for me) some moments of surprise, alarm or pause. Many of the points I present under this banner (At The Speed Of Next) could easily be news items or stimulating ideas for which I have more...

The Death Of The Smartphone

If you take a look at the performance of Apple of late, it’s not pretty. Check the one year chart on MarketWatch, and you’ll see that — after climbing to a 52-week high of $705.07/share — it has come back to the price that it was about a year...