The Digital Brand Tree. Part 2. June 2026 This is part two, of three companion briefs to the thesis “The Digital Brand Tree.” See also 1: Introducing the opportunity · 3: The beneficiaries of an antifragile digital brand. Welcome to the 2nd part of my thesis/proposal around the digital brand tree. In part 1 (the […]
The Digital Brand Tree. Part 1. May 2026 This is part one, of three companion briefs to the thesis “The Digital Brand Tree.” See also 2: Signal records, governance and technology · 3: The beneficiaries of an antifragile digital brand. We are in a time of exponential change, and so on. We know the meme. […]
Wow. So it’s been almost 7 years since I added something here. Time to get back on the horse. More coming soon. Hopefully much more.
The Apple Card has intrigued me since being announced in March 2019. The power of iPhone. In a credit card. as the site says. Partnered with Mastercard and Goldman Sachs. And out now for early users, apparently. There’s been some good thought about how disruptive it will be to the payments system, taking on the […]
If you are like me and attend events where people talk about disruption, transformation and customer experience, then you’re most likely familiar with the brands that speakers love to mention when they talk about disruption: Those two (of the myriad of disrupted businesses) are the ones that almost always get mentioned. Here’s one more big […]
Bill Gates has a fantastic blog/site over at https://www.gatesnotes.com. If you don’t already read it, I recommend you do. I’ve been looking at the relationship between personal/emotional challenge and the connection with innovation. This recent article at Gates Notes appeared for me at a key time: Memorizing these three statistics will help you understand the […]
I have a Nintendo Switch. I love my Nintendo Switch. it is one of the most extraordinary user experiences I’ve ever had, because of the way it focusses the nature of the device. It’s speedy The Switch is not a hardware powerhouse like the Sony Playstation or XBox One. It doesn’t want to be. […]
The EU hit Google with a US$5bn fine for antitrust, and anticompetitive activity in forcing/incentivising phone manufacturers to install Android, and stick to Chrome rather than offering an alternative. While Google has of course started the usual appeal against this decision, the real question is how much this actually means. Sure, US$5bn is a lotta […]
I wanted to challenge my kids to think different in storytelling and problem solving, so introduced them to Role Playing Games (RPGs). For those unfamiliar with RPGs, you choose a character and play through a guided adventure as that character, fighting, finding treasure and generally reacting to the story told by your guide. With me […]
I was having a thought-provoking chat with a friend the other day. As happens these days, the chat was over Facebook Messenger, not face to face. We were discussing things like the PageUp security breach, and I mentioned that one of the companies who had been involved in the security and data compromise, had sent […]
Where Dragons Dwell 