by JAK | Apr 27, 2013 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
Back in 2007 law Professor Elizabeth Warren gave a talk on “The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class”. Last November Warren was elected to the US senate and now quite predictably some of her academic work has come under the microscope. Whenever anyone...
by JAK | Mar 30, 2013 | big ideas, culture, TED, video
Yesterday while driving home with my daughter after one of her after school activities she mentioned that she was thinking it would be good to be a primary school teacher. I asked her why primary school (equivalent to elementary school in US) and she said it is...
by JAK | Feb 27, 2013 | culture, industry futures, TED
Progress Enigma was the title of a debate shared at TED 2013 a few hours ago. Economists Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson debated the future of work. The paradox of our technology enabled times is that (despite the writing having been on the wall for decades ) we...
by JAK | Feb 14, 2013 | big ideas, culture, video
One of the things I love doing is working with students on learning and life development. Wait, let me re-phrase that – there is always another way to do something and if we are open to it the chance of learning moments can change us and those around us for the...
by JAK | Feb 2, 2013 | culture, TED
Every so often you come across a great list of things that can help you live smarter. Lately I have been talking with friends about how a bit of age is not a bad thing if it comes with perspective as well. In earlier days I use to try and write up my 10 ten things I...
by JAK | Jan 13, 2013 | big ideas, culture
Nate Silver as many of you will know is a math pundit who founded the fivethirtyeight blog now over at the NY Times. That blog was all about the presidential election and over there he used a series of polls to predict (very successfully) the results of both the 2008...
