When start-ups are preparing a pitch deck, it’s difficult to get the right messaging across. You want to show the grand vision, while at the same time presenting goals that are humble enough that they could be achieved within a reasonable time frame. …

Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguing is done We’ll take our leave and go It’s an indisputable fact that everyone loves a sea shanty. Recently, I was listening to The Longest Johns’ version of Wellerman and became intrigued…

It’s a wonderful thing to be clever, and you should never think otherwise, and you should never stop being that way. But what you learn, as you get older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time…

Negotiation is a difficult skill to learn, made even more so because the times that we need to call on it are typically time constrained with some meaningful stakes on the table. Good negotiation skills are relatively important in the early-stages of starting a company, made more so because of…

In politics, ideology and partisanship are highly correlated and only becoming more so over time. This is coming to bear in the US election, where an incumbent that has overseen thousands of unnecessary deaths at the hands of a global pandemic, almost 100 times the amount that died as a…

Why are organisations, everywhere, political, commercial, and social, increasingly unable to manage their affairs? Why are individuals, everywhere, increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organization of which that are part? Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray? Dee Hock, CEO BankAmericard Inc In 1970 when the…

In the pre-dawn hours of 20 May 1927, a custom-built, single engine, fixed wing plane was being prepared at Roosevelt Airfield in New York state. Four experienced pilots had recently died, although two were assumed missing, attempting what Charles Lindbergh was about to attempt. A nonstop transatlantic flight from Garden…

Forward thinking countries are aware that they need to be focused on developing emerging technologies. Ever since Marc Andreessen coined the phrase “Software is eating the world,” we have seen an acceleration in technological developments that impact all of the areas of people’s lives. …

It’s hard for newly hatched founders to know what they should be looking for in an investor. While there will be some nuance in what is appropriate for each company depending on their industry and near-term goals, there are some over-arching principles that they should be thinking about. …