I wrote a piece for Strategy Magazine's Next Big Thing Issue about consumer culture on the emerging market for privacy.  —– We are in the thick of prediction season so I thought I would share it [and the others.]  One of the pitfalls of prognostication is that we often tend to start with emerging technologies…

Memory Hacking is the title of a piece I wrote for FastCompany's #travelbrilliantly branded content series about the future of travel.  In it I steal from Daniel Kahneman, and consider some of the broader implications of his thinking, fast and slow, and the TED talk above [which is wonderful] for how we think about, plan…

While traveling around, I'm writing a series of pieces for Fast Company on the future of traveling around, as part of a branded content series called #TravelBrilliantly.  I'm the 'creativity' correspondent for the 'creative braintrust' they put together, which doubles me up on the creativity front, or renders me tautological. Possibily both.  I shall endeavour…

This is quite exciting. Our book has been published! I say our – Simon Pont put the whole thing together and kindly asked me to contribute the first chatper. Here's the HuffPo piece I wrote about it. The whole idea of a Digital State has taken on more ominous overtones since we wrote it, but…

is a companion piece I wrote for B&T to the talk I'm giving in Sydney at MadWeek on July 15th, which looks awesome.  If you are going to be there do come and say hi. You can read it over on B&T or below // Prospection, the act of looking forward in time, is a…

This is Water. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life [Kindle Edition] by David Foster Wallace, is one of my all time favorite pieces of writing. When I first read it, I bought literally dozens of copies and gave them to people for birthdays and leaving gifts and…

  Hello!  After 5 lovely years in New York, I recently left the city and my job, sold my furniture and my stake in the agency we started, started an innovation practice, got engaged and went out on the road. It felt like a good time for me to be flexible.  This year I will mostly…

I remember opening the door to my old apartment, in a converted church building on 16th Street, about 3 years ago and seeing it was Jonathan Harris. My friend Ela had asked if he could stay, of course, but I wasn't quite sure if it was the one I had heard of.  She was due to…

Thanks to an invitation from Mr and Mrs Schiller, I got to go to a launch party for Douglas Rushkoff's new book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now [Kindle Edition] a week or two ago at Meet at the Apartment. I've just finished it and am letting it gestate but I'm pretty sure you should…

I was on my way to the One Club to help judge the finalists of the digital Young Ones awards last night, and, as is sometimes the way of things, the universe used coincidence to tell me something… "The thing about coincidence is that when you imagine the umpteen trillions of coincidences that can happen…