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. […]
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 […]
Warren G represent. If you’ve read some of my past posts, you know I have a keen interest in the way that the tech industry is maturing into something that, in my opinion, will be reined in by the regulatory bodies. We’re seeing this happen in many areas already – the explosion in privacy and […]
Let’s do a 2017 wrap up. It’s so in the moment. In tech, 2017 belonged to 2 things, for me. Not Facebook & Google, or Foogle, or Googbook or whatever the fuck people are calling the media monopoly. Not even close. One: Uber Damned, but this year was Uber’s year. And not in a good […]
I think it’s time to note down in words an idea that began a few years ago (so probably around 2010-2011), spoken about in lunches and meetings where a few souls, sitting on the edge of the precipice of publishing as the decline started to really take hold. A few of us were there – […]
I am not sure whether there’s anything more that can be added to the Uber discussion. So I’m not going to. The conversation has already shifted away from trashy executive behaviour and individual maturity into a bigger, much more interesting space. This leads out of the antitrust ruling against Google to the tune of €2.4 […]
On 10 August, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi from Apple talked to Fast Company in a very interesting interview. I discuss some of the strategic timing of the interview here, but this article is a focus on the Maps part of the discussion, where the two talk about the underestimation, and cost, of doing Maps well. It’s a […]
The Apple bigwigs have been on a bit of an interview tear in the past week, building up the hype in the lead up to the iPhone launch on September 7. The interviews (Tim Cook with the Washington Post, and Eddy Cue/Craig Federighi with Fast Company) have taken an interesting approach, pushing the humanity of their leaders […]
There’s a lot being made out of Apple’s decision to use differential privacy in iOS10. WIRED as usual have a solid write up. In Craig Federighi‘s part of the WWDC Keynote address, he mentioned that Apple was shifting to use differential privacy as a means to collect even more data but protect user privacy at the […]
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