A while back I gave a talk at the Google Think Travel conference. It was a super fun gig. I posted the deck and some thoughts before. People seemed to like it and asked about the presentation itself. So here are the last 20mins of the talk, which concern travel, dynamic pricing and opportunity cost…

is the name of a book from the 1908s I was given as a gift after a speaking engagement [thanks!]. The title comes from the tension required in those who run advertising agencies: to rule their word must be law, but to be a creative environment they must be "fair…kind and understanding…helpful…and a father [or…

  Let’s get scenius faris from Faris Yakob Here is the live version of the article below that I performed at Social Media Week NYC and the slides that accompanied the 15 minute talk.  Followed by the very excellent talks from my mate the very inspiring Shaun Abrahsom, whose book Crowdstorm just came out:  Crowdstorm:…

is the name of this piece I wrote about collaboration for Huffington Post, as part of Social Media Week.  And here it also is:  "Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being." Gandhi In 1958, Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation For Economic Education,…

[I still get and have a lot of [analogue] books.  I'm an in-betweener. I love Kindle reading, but I love the carapaces of books too.]   A while back I wrote a piece for the International Journal of Advertising called Ex Libris. [It's a regular column where someone shares books that are important or formative…

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