AI Changes Everything
Kate Carruthers I spoke at the Front End of Innovation (FEI) Conference in Boston this week about AI, innovation and the future. This post is part one of a distillation of my…
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Ethics in AI
A recent article on the emergence of Artifical Intelligence (AI) as a real thing quoted me on the need for an ethical lens over our AI. I do suspect that…
Authenticity online – not necessary, perhaps essential or Kitteh vs Chickin
This talk by Bitly’s Matt LeMay at Monki Gras entitled: Kitteh vs Chickin: How What We Share is Different from What we Click is important and is really worth watching.…
De Profundis: The final mystery is oneself
Recently I was re-reading Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, a moving letter from prison that looks at spirituality and faith from the depths of despair and degradation. This particular quote stood…
Worth thinking about: Seven social sins (not about social media) | via M. Gandhi
No, I’m not talking about social media. This is about real life. And I think that Gandhi summed up a lot of what the #Occupy movement is on about in…
Leadership, personality traits, and success: Do nice guys really finish last?
I came across an article in Wired Science by Jonah Lehrer titled Do Nice Guys Finish Last?. It had plenty to get me thinking. Apparently: “… levels of ‘agreeableness’ are…
Leadership: Doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching
I have worked with a number of great leaders and managers over the years, some of them are famous for this but others are quiet achievers. Watching ABC’s Four Corners…
Riots, desire, consumerism, community and values.
Want is a funny word. It can mean different things, such as: “absence or deficiency of something desirable or requisite” or “to be lacking or absent, as a part or…
Why do bad leaders happen to good people? #notw #hackergate
There have been astonishing revelations in London about leaders in the News International group of companies and in the UK Parliament. Perhaps even more shocking is the disclosure of the…
A Bloggers’ Code of Ethics?
Update 2016: This link is no longer available but you can find a handy how-to guide to setting up a blog here – thanks to Chris for the link. An…