Deeptech Grant Writer and Business Designer
This is a classic book on how your thoughts affect your actions and change your life. Tony Robbins is a big fan, so it is worth a read just for that fact! Some inspiring quotes: As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Circumstance does not make the man, it reveals him to [ ]
Refugee Entrepreneur Philanthropist. I recently read this amazing book by the incredible Dame Stephanie Shirley after she spoke at Techhub London last year. Dame Shirley was a refugee on the Kindertransport to the UK during World War II and remained in the UK. She had a flair for maths and technology, but in [ ]
I recently stumbled across this old article about the Dymaxion world map projection invented by Buckminster Fuller (and therefore also known as the Fuller Projection Map). It is supposedly the first two-dimensional map of the entire surface of Earth that reveals our planet as one, without inaccurately distorting or splitting up the land . You can buy [ ]
The idea that two people could go through a process that causes them to build a stronger relationship or even fall in love is a fascinating one. As explained in this article, which is based on this academic paper by Aron et al, there is a process that psychologists have developed that seems to do just [ ]
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is a classic book in the personal development genre. I have recently read it (twice in a row) and gained so many interesting techniques and little nuggets of wisdom. One thing that I found very interesting was the Personal Inventory Self Analysis Questions (download pdf here). It was a series [ ]
Business Design is an emerging commercial discipline. The best definition of business design that I have seen comes from IDEO, the company that first introduced me to the concept: Business designers take juicy, creative, human-centered innovation and make it succeed out there in the real world. We [IDEO] use strategy, analysis, and financial modeling as [ ]
There s a great post on IDEO s website on a topic that is fascinating to me: How to Prototype A New Business (from their Creative Confidence series). The post is based around an interview (audio below) with Joe Gerber, the MD of IDEO CoLab, which is a collaborative R D Lab exploring emerging technologies and its future impact . Among some [ ]
Back in 2014/2015, I wondered whether it would make sense for Google to acquire Dyson. Growth of Alphabet/Google hardware presence In order to keep their advantage in the search and data sphere, Google (now Alphabet) ramped up their presence in lots of emerging hardware spaces via acquisitions such as Motorola, Boston Dynamics and Nest Labs. [ ]
After Randy Pausch s phenomenal Last Lecture, he recorded another great one on Time Management lecture at the University of Virginia which you can view below: The full slide deck can be downloaded here: Randy Pausch Time Management slides. I have condensed the talk s key points into this list of top tips: Make sure that you [ ]
During the final year (2007-08) of my Physics degree at Imperial College, we studied a module called Research Interfaces (RI). This was a team-based module that focussed on transforming scientific research into commercial business propositions. This was a highlight of the degree for me: I loved the collaborative nature of it and the entrepreneurial challenge [ ]