03NovA timely reminder Categories: Brave New World, Culture, Future, News, Our Thinking, In this great politico-media fest that is #COP26, it’s useful to highlight our commitment to eradicating negative traces that... [more]
09AugThe concept of a Metaverse Categories: Brave New World, Future, News, Our Thinking, Welcome to the birth of the Metaverse. Or at least it’s conception. The goal of a unified web is... [more]
29JunThe working week is killing us Categories: Brave New World, Culture, News, Our Thinking, For many, working at home in a toxic culture is the new norm. Sadly, many employers have made a... [more]
21JunThe end of the “free” internet. For some. Categories: Brave New World, News, But that, we don’t mean the freedom that the internet offers, but the provision of free services is coming... [more]
19MayLockdown stuff we want to keep Categories: Brave New World, News, Our Thinking, Lockdown forced a new world on us. Some good and some bad, so lets take a closer look. The... [more]
09Dec2020: The year the world invents time travel Categories: Brave New World, Future, News, Our Thinking, The rise and fall of the pandemic, the creation of a new paradigm and how society jumped forward 15... [more]
12NovLockdown has been good for us, on balance Categories: Brave New World, Future, News, COVID has made for a challenging year, but a lot of good has come out of it. Forcing many... [more]
11JunNew normal: A time of distance Categories: Brave New World, News, As the first wave of the pandemic subsides we now see a new normal starting to be forged. Last... [more]
19MayWe’ve all gone digital. Will we ever go back? Categories: Brave New World, News, The new normal may not be virtual, but it’s certainly a lot less corporeal. The world has been rocked... [more]
11MayLockdown Day 50: Time to wake up? Categories: Brave New World, Future, News, Just about seven weeks since the country went into lockdown, and three months after the first reported deaths in... [more]
20AprThe light looks different Categories: Brave New World, Future, News, As the COVID-19 outbreak v1.0 passes the peak, the light at the end of the tunnel is now clearly... [more]
03AprPPC Advertising vs Trench Warfare Categories: Brave New World, News, As the CV19 outbreak really starts to take hold we’re seeing some clients scrap their digital advertising plans. I... [more]
20FebThe cubicle is making a come back, and it’s cosier than ever Categories: Brave New World, News, Tags: cubicle, culture, digital nomad, Future, open-plan office, Technology, Most people in recent history have spent their working lives in small, closed-off spaces. And it was these small,... [more]
19DecMotivation 3.0 Categories: Brave New World, Our Thinking, Tags: culture, Future, motivation, thinking, work, Until the industrial revolution, humans were preoccupied mostly with survival as they fought for space, food, against illness and... [more]
04DecNo one bothered to read the terms & conditions Categories: Brave New World, News, Tags: data privacy, facebook, Future, GDPR, google, small print, On the internet, everything we do is stored, indexed, mined, and crunched: Our likes, our fears, our friends, the... [more]
02NovBusiness is not just the balance sheet and shareholder value Categories: Brave New World, Culture, News, Our Thinking, Corporate responsibility has become a thing. In fact, it was always a thing but just maybe unpopular with business... [more]
23JulCan objective truth survive in a post-fact world? Categories: Brave New World, Future, Our Thinking, Next year, Chatham House in St James’s Square turns 100 years old, the Royal Institute setup after the Great... [more]
10JulThe return of the “slacker” Categories: Brave New World, Future, News, Life sure seems hard. A full-on race to craft the perfect Insta existence, every hour spent chasing engagement (whatever... [more]
12JunThe Forgotten Art of Non-Doing Categories: Brave New World, News, Tags: engagement, Future, Marketing, productivity, Technology, wu wei, The concept of wú wéi, often translated as “non-doing”, is one of the more recent and trickier to grasp ideas that’s... [more]
27MayWhy more information is not always better Categories: Brave New World, News, Tags: facebook, Future, Information overload, Marketing, social, social media, Technology, Managing information used to be a problem reserved for newspapers and librarians. But with the dawn of the information... [more]