I am very grateful to Cardano for supporting me in taking a sabbatical after 17 years with the company. I turned 50 this year, my eldest son has just finished school and my new role in sustainability last year all converged to make it feel like an opportune moment to take some time out to … Continue reading My sabbatical part 1: An African Conservation Adventure
If you haven’t watched it, stop now, go and rent it, and watch Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One“ (RPO). The movie is set in “the Stacks”, a high density city of container homes situated in Columbus Ohio in 2045. It is a world where everyone spends most of their time online in Virtual Reality world … Continue reading Ready Player One: a vision of the future
A fascinating read about human evolution from c 12000 bc by a scientist anthropologist with tremendous real world experience. He hypothesises about the key driving forces that have really made the world as we know it today, a world largely dominated by Eurasian societies and provides compelling evidence in support of those hypotheses. This book … Continue reading Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
A wonderful introduction to Greek mythology which I have always been curious about but never found a really accessible read. For my own remembrance I am just going to summarise some of the key characters and relationships here: The First Order – primordial deities – often the idea of the god and the thing they … Continue reading Mythos by Stephen Fry
The book has a few essential ideas which are worth while but it takes quite a lot of background to get to them. Below are my key takeaways. The context for McChrystal was trying to get specialist units in very different parts of the military, who each worked incredibly effectively in their specific area, to … Continue reading Team of teams by General Stanley McChrystal – leading teams to work effectively together
The book picks up on several themes that I think are very important for understanding where the world is trending over the coming years. Politics Disillusionment picks up on the rise of anti ellitest autocratic and populist rulers (connections to The Demise of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce). Issues of identity, nationalism clash with global … Continue reading 21 lessons for the 21st century by Yuval Noah Harari
Here's something that inspired me... 