Did you hear about that guy who started up a dating agency … with him being the only bloke on the books!It’s a true storyWhy did I not think of that??? You could try a similar thing with a sperm bank… and father an entire generation
In the past, running a Premortem has been the single most helpful exercise I’ve found for dealing with complex, risky projects. This is the core idea, but there’s a little more to it. I’m not joking when I say that a premortem refocused the hardest death-march I’ve been on, and another premortem was a key […]
I’m currently CTO at Big Health/Sleepio, building digital medicine. Sleepio’s astonishing effectiveness has been shown in a randomized, placebo-controlled peer-reviewed trial (covered by The Lancet), and delivers it all through The Prof’s warm, Scottish brogue. Before that, I co-founded Memrise.com with Grandmaster of Memory Ed Cooke in 2008. Memrise blends the art and science of memory to power incredibly effective, social and […]
In the future, we will routinely employ some product that will probably be called Microsoft MyLife (1) to manage our reading, news, entertainment and shopping. What will it do? Let’s start with the present and build forwards. For my money, amazon.com is the best site in the business. It takes the only shopping activity I […]