A few years ago I started asking questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI). This document is where some of those questions led. I have watched many AI documentaries, listened to many podcasts and audiobooks, read articles and research, and spent a significant amount of time using Claude to soundboard my thinking. The following affects us all – and right now most of us are not in the room, or…
I recently watched Better Off Dead? a BBC documentary authored by actor and disability rights activist Liz Carr. It raises valid concerns and questions about the repercussions of the Assisted Dying Bill , a proposed law to legalise Assisted Suicide in England and Wales, currently in Lords Committee Stage (April 2026). I decided to draft my own conceptual framework to develop and encourage my own…
In 1999 a soap salesman called Tyler Durden told me “The things you own end up owning you”. Since then I've been extremely intentional about what I own and why. I do my best to “Buy well. Buy once.”
The 'affect heuristic' – in which people make judgements and decisions by consulting their emotions: Do I like it? Do I hate it? How strongly do I feel about it? instead of really putting the time and effort into answering the harder question of What do I really think about it?
coFWD.org sprang out of tuttle101 to launch Kent’s first coworking community and participatory workspace in 2011, at 161 High Street, Rochester.
Tuttle Club London was an original idea from Lloyd Davis . The conversations and experiences I had there inspired tuttle101 in Rochester (UK).
A philosophy towards a disruptively better economy In his book The Element, Sir Ken Robinson highlights the importance of Identifying Passion and Redefining Creativity. In The Starfish and The Spider, Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom identify the unstoppable power of leaderless organisations and inevitability and need for ever-changing models in our ever-changing…
What does the future hold for Kent's creative economy? Organised by a partnership team (namely Media Tree), with a Chair representative from Maidstone Studios, this evening (17/11/2010) I watched and listened alongside approximately 70 other people, as four keynote speakers (a local government statistician, an academic from the University for…
Written and published in 2010 for The National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE).
I am poorer than I have ever been but I have never been so opportunity rich!
This post forms the very beginning of a journey. Disclaimer: this post was written on 3rd September 2009. It is not meant to dis-colour any local, government or academic authorities or initiatives – it's simply my honest opinion and open thinking because that's what blogs are for right? Inspired by the…