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Inner Musings
Where will the mind wonder next on this journey of provocative pondering?
Stay tuned as I add to this collection of inner musings!
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CMS: 8 tried & tested ways to future-fit a tech solution
Your team has been given the go ahead to source and procure a CMS. What next? This article covers insights on how to proactively implement a tech solution for optimal speed of adoption.
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Beyond cute: The truth about our pets’ pawprint
The dawn of a superfluous era is emerging. Life in excess. A penchant for growth and gratification. An age in which scarcity no longer restricts humanity’s proclivity to indulge. Our very companions — pets — now bear their own environmental pawprint, silently echoing our collective consumption habits. Life, as we know it, is metamorphosing from…
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Investing in the big ebb & flow
With interest rates normalising and economic resilience reviving risk appetite, global markets are entering a slow recovery phase. Key sectors for investing include technology, cybersecurity and clean energy, overlaid with long-term market patterns suggesting a bullish outlook until 2026.
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Neurohacking the wondrous mind of an improvert
Curious about triggering the synaptic fireworks of our neuro-harmonic brain on improv? Join me in Part 3 of this cerebral series.
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Revealing the cerebral mandala of our neuro-harmonic mind
Ever wondered about the sensory ensemble of our brain on improv? Join me in Part 2 of this cerebral series as I explore the neuro-harmonic mind.
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The wondrous mind of our inner dolphin on improv
Many questions linger about the wonders of improv and how our cerebral ensemble of neuro-harmonics can unleash the inventive spirit of an improvert. Join me in this 3-part series as I dive into the mystical psyche of the improvisational self — a journey with porpoise, voyaging through the playful mind of our inner dolphin.
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Neurodiversity: Why are so many people suddenly AuDHD?
As awareness of neurodiversity and AuDHD grows, there’s a push to rethink psychiatric terminology. Critics argue that terms like ‘disorder’ and ‘deficit’ are counterintuitive, suggesting instead ‘condition,’ ‘sensitivity,’ and ‘difference.’ This shift aims to foster a deeper understanding and acceptance of neurodiversity.
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Smart or scary? Tell-tale signs of an emerging AI-nxiety crisis
Fast, free, sparse, exponential are just some of the word associations floating around today’s frenzied AI movement — baiting public interest with grandiose claims of superintelligence and the Internet of Augmentation (IoA). Yet what started as a virtuous research and safety premise has morphed into an exploitation endeavour, devouring data at the expense of ethical…
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Unveiling the simulacrum: Data’s role in revealing reality
As data visualisation and augmented technology captivate the next generation, humans are likely to be passengers in a probabilistically engineered simulacrum defined by debatable data.
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Breakthrough GenAI tools to empower Content Automation in 2024
Hurtling into the year of the Dragon, enterprises face a challenging scenario: adopt automation tools or risk being left behind by more innovative companies that harness the augmented potential of GenAI. This selection of neoteric tools can help both startups and established enterprises evaluate scalable solutions for their unique content needs.
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AI: A Journey into the heart of Deep Learning
AI has made significant advancements in the past decade, now entwined in almost every aspect of our lives, from business to everyday activities. Despite current limitations, GenAI shows promise in empowering cognition and optimising workflow. Through human-centred design, augmentation offers a safer and more effective way to enhance human intelligence rather than replace it.
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Open Innovation: The enormous potential of an Open Talent Revolution
As industries navigate volatile markets and technology disruption, companies of all sizes need solutions to problems that unlock open innovation. This article explores the open talent revolution and how remote-first markets, communities and contests can help intrapreneurs re-energise cultural ingenuity.
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Daring move from Twitter to X, or rash & risky?
He’s at it again. The world’s most talked about personality has just announced Twitter’s shattering shift to “X, the everything app”. And, as absurd as it sounds, the beloved blue bird no longer tweets. Could this move revolutionise the tech industry, or will this rebrand falter the legacy of a 15-year old app?
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Proven ways to write an Executive Summary
The most influential aspect of any advisory-related content is the moment in which the decision maker interprets the truth of the claim and grasps the overarching objective of the executive summary. This article covers 4 scenarios that organisations use to provide insightful synopses for senior stakeholders, along with the inverted pyramid concept and a tightly…
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4 truths you need to know about Content Strategy
Bombarded with online clutter, creators and curators face a daunting challenge to evoke attention and retain usage among time-sensitive audiences with complex user needs. These actionable truths can help you adopt a more strategic approach when creating and curating eclectic content experiences.
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Economic entropy: Trading to the danger zone
Deceleration, recession or stagflation? A plunge towards economic entropy is looming. Sit tight, buckle up as the world braces for market disorder.
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Insightful stories & how to shape them
Ever wondered how to create thought-provoking stories? How might you go about transforming ideas into a meaningful message for your audience? How might you inspire an audience with delightful design, poetic prose or stunning data visualisation? This article, drawing from eclectic perspectives, seeks to inspire a cultural shift in how cross-functional production teams shape their…
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Intuitive Nuance: Cognitive conditioning for creative impact
You’ve been struggling to find the right structure to articulate your inner musings, wondering if you’ll ever get around to composing that inspiring melodic arrangement, or picking up that novel that awaits conscious contemplation. In this blog, I ponder about ways to fast-track your visionary quest by adding structure where most needed — turning that…
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Pandemonium
Unless you’re Jim, a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma in Danny Boyle’s post-apocalyptic horror film, 28 Days Later, you’ve probably lived through the initial scenes of a highly contagious outbreak. Like Jim, you’ve been thrown into a world of chaos where worry and irrationality run rampant. As pandemonium permeates society, existential musings of…
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Africa’s Craving for Crypto
Digital this, disruption that. These terms, believe it or not, have fused into an exciting development that is fundamentally transforming the way Africans interact financially. Where the developed world is struggling to maintain its archaic banking traditions and rigid economics with futuristic blockchain functionality, Africa is a blank slate from which to code this innovation…
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Disruptive Education: Revolutionising African Pedagogy
Access to education has the undeniable catalytic effect to accelerate societal progress. As a result, academic and government institutions across sub-Saharan Africa are busy contemplating the pedagogic landscape that the EdTech community has aptly labelled, “ripe for disruption”. At the forefront of this scholastic push, education technology providers are fundamentally shaping the way students around…