Read time: 2 mins Prefer Listening? Find the podcast here Everyone has been in a situation where people have made mistakes. Some people have genuinely had people out to get them. Hanlon’s Razor offers a way to be both kinder to ourselves and to others by suggesting that the chance of an action being genuinelyContinue reading “Hanlon’s Razor”
Author Archives: Alex Martin
The Pareto Distribution
Read Time: 3 mins For the most part, there’s nothing wrong with being average. Expectations are reasonable, you are liked by some, not by others. The paparazzi take a limited interest in who you snog and what colour your socks are. Being average typically means you fall somewhere towards the middle of what mathematicians callContinue reading “The Pareto Distribution”
Smarticles Sales Tips #2
Read time: 12 mins In most of our interactions, we are probably trying to persuade someone of something. Sometimes it’s a friendly tiff with our friends, sometimes it’s trying to pry a refund out of customer support, sometimes it’s trying to convince a bouncer that your mate’s fine. Whether we’re hoping to sell a particularContinue reading “Smarticles Sales Tips #2”
Ken Robinson
Read Time: 1 min There is a wonderful story about a 6 year old girl. She was a pain in the neck usually. She was persistently distracted, chit-chatting to the other children, gazing out the window and generally causing trouble. One day however, during a drawing class, she was completely engrossed. Her teacher, fascinated (andContinue reading “Ken Robinson”
Pulp Non-Fiction
Read time: 3 mins At a time where politics is polarised and distrust is at an all time high, it’s good to look back and understand some of the events that have fertilized the chaotic and bewildering landscape we find ourselves in today. The following is a story told by Noam Chomsky about his experiencesContinue reading “Pulp Non-Fiction”
Chemistry and Compatibility
Read time: 2 mins Sometimes you can literally feel the power of a connection with another person. It envelopes you, they cloud your mind, send shockwaves through your soul and tingle your fingertips. Throughout the history of story-telling, lust, passion and love have all had this physical component. It’s interesting that the words we useContinue reading “Chemistry and Compatibility”
Smarticles Sales Tips #1
Read Time: 4 mins In most of our interactions, we are probably trying to persuade someone of something. Sometimes it’s a friendly tiff with our friends, sometimes it’s trying to pry a refund out of customer support, or potentially it’s trying to persuade a bouncer that your mate’s fine. Whether we’re hoping to sell aContinue reading “Smarticles Sales Tips #1”
Part 1: The Crypto Revolution
Read Time: 8 mins Buy Dogecoin. Actually don’t, buy Bitcoin. No, don’t do that either. Wait, actually, buy both. Questionable excitement and advice from friends, mixed with attention grabbing headlines have left a lot of people scratching their heads. What is crypto? Why should I care? Like any new thing, the sensible and fact basedContinue reading “Part 1: The Crypto Revolution”
How normal is new?
Read time: 8 mins Imagine you are WordPress. WordPress has 148 million unique visitors per month. This is only slightly fewer than Twitter. They run websites for some of the largest players in the world; companies such as Disney, Playstation and Microsoft. And yet they employ only 1170 staff globally. Those staff iterate 1000 deploymentsContinue reading “How normal is new?”
Attention Grabbers
Read Time: 10 mins Everyone wants you to pay attention. Recent exposes about the goose step of big tech into our minds and wallets has got people thinking more about their attention and where its spent. While Netflix has thrust documentaries like The Great Hack (2019) and The Social Dilemma (2020) into the public eye,Continue reading “Attention Grabbers”
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