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The title of this blog comes from one of my favourite movies, said in the gorgeous Spanish voice of Penelope Cruz. It is my tradition to watch Vanilla Sky on New Year’s Eve for inspiration. Every year, I have looked forward to returning back after the festivities of December to greet the dawn of a […]

For most of us when we think back to our childhood, the things we have now were not available to us as kids; a laptop, a smartphone, Wi-Fi, and social media platforms that tether us to the rest of our world. You likely got to this blog through one such platform. In the future of […]

Whether you believe that technology distracts, detracts or solves challenges around a poor attention span, in this week’s blog, we dive into ways that technology can help support us to be better tethered to focus. According to research from RescueTime, one of several apps for iOS and Android created to monitor phone use, people generally […]

In a previous blog piece, we spoke of how ‘Technology has made great progress in removing the necessity for humans to store and retain information; whether it is in accounting, manufacturing, or navigating.’ With the freeing up of our brain bandwidth this week we turn to the identity of humanity in ‘Authenticity’. It’s often a marketing […]

In the future of work, value alignment is brought up more now than ever. The previous generation often toed the line to an industrial age while the Millennial generation (now mostly in their 30s) are choosing to upgrade to careers that fulfil purpose and alignment with their values.  The famous Simon Sinek video on Millennials […]

It’s hard to imagine that mobile phones didn’t exist the way they do now with a supercomputer in our pocket. With significant leaps in technology advancement happening, often at an unprecedented pace, this week’s blog looks at the technology we have now, that will help us on Mars.  The way we work has changed dramatically in […]

Last week one of our clients Peter send us a photo last week, you can check it out in my LinkedIn post here. The layers of irony in this photo inspired our blog piece this week on the fear of change, figurative and literal. Fear is the most common reason for the resistance of change […]

We’ve never lived in an era more connected by technology and yet we hear about an increasing epidemic of loneliness, is technology really to blame? A lot has been written about the damaging effects of social media. It is also a lifeline for those battling isolation because of circumstances outside of their control (sudden loss […]

There is a Japanese saying 人に迷惑をかけない hito ni meiwaku wo kakenai “don’t bother people” (the literal translation is “don’t attach disturbance to people”) this doesn’t translate in a dog-eat-dog world and with burnout on the rise. A blog I was reading recently described it quite perfectly that the default posture for a decent and kind human being is to assume […]

When was the last time you had to calculate something in your head? How about navigating to a new location from memory alone? Depending on your age demographic, you might have answered these questions differently. Learning to drive has often been a mark of independence. It is a big step towards adulthood. Now, imagine thousands […]