Gawurra at #TEDxSydney17 transcendent music

Gawurra at #TEDxSydney17 transcendent music

TEDxSydney is a TEDx event that probably has more music in it than most. The idea is that layering music and short films between talks helps with absorbing and nourishing the brain food from the speakers. Every so often a musical performance comes along that is an...
Journalists are failing at their job

Journalists are failing at their job

At TEDxSydney 2017 – journalist Jane Gilmore didn’t pull any punches. She spoke about the ways that sub editors, journalists and publishers minimise the role of male violence against women by writing harmful headlines. She used a series of examples like...
Come sail your ships around me

Come sail your ships around me

Every so often I hear a song that really moves me. One of the things that makes a song great is when others can sing the same words, the same song yet bring other layers of meaning into their performances. Which is what happens here. One song that has stood the test...
Thinking the Elon Musk way

Thinking the Elon Musk way

Elon Musk has a way of thinking about first principles and solving problems that is absolutely gobsmacking brilliant.  Just a few weeks ago Elon had a wide ranging conversation with Chris Anderson at the latest TED conference. Instead of talking about Tesla they...
Hold my beer customer service

Hold my beer customer service

Just this week United Airlines dragged a customer off a plane and destroyed their brand for many customers. Last week Pepsi and Nivea also had tone deaf communications disasters. These are high profile screw-ups but many companies do worse on a daily basis by...