by JAK | Jun 17, 2012 | big ideas
Back in ’88 I worked with some great people in a small management consulting firm. It was one of my first really good jobs because the team had the vision and drive to change businesses from the inside out. We targetted a sector which had high capital costs and...
by JAK | Jun 11, 2012 | big ideas, culture
Here is a simple analogy about information viewed as food from JP Rangaswami as presented at TED@SXSWi April 2012. If information was food would we consume it differently? “So I looked at the cultivation of information as if it were food and said, and said So we...
by JAK | Jun 7, 2012 | big ideas, culture, music, TEDx
Yesterday New Zealanders had an extremely rare chance to watch the planet Venus in transit across the face of the Sun on Wednesday the 6th of June. This opportunity will not occur again for 105 years. “From 10:15am until 4:43pm, viewers will be able to observe a...
by JAK | Jun 6, 2012 | big ideas, music, TEDx
I heard Linh speak in Sydney a week or so back and she is now 21 and still going strong. Here she is at TEDxChCh – Linh Do – Defying Social Norms for Social Change – from Oct 2010. “In this talk, Linh Do asks some important questions: What is...
by JAK | Jun 5, 2012 | big ideas, TED
I have been waiting all my adult life for Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” book. Anyone who can link the world of psychology and economics is a hero to me. For Daniel to research along these lines for 40+ years – a Nobel prize doesn’t...
by JAK | Jun 3, 2012 | culture, music, TEDx
Luke Thompson keeps popping up on my music radar. He seems to work with great videographers and the songs stay with me long after the sound is off. Look the Other Way is 4 years old but has an inventive video and a song that expands my world. Back in Auckland, New...
by JAK | Jun 2, 2012 | big data, big ideas, TED
One way that newspapers and other media try to manage a lot of information is by making an infographic or diagram. This type of visual “map” often helps the media to convey complex ideas more quickly and makes it easier for most of us to process....
by JAK | Jun 1, 2012 | big ideas, TED
Last weekend besides TEDxSydney on the Sunday we had the delight to be part of TED@Sydney Talent Search. 20+ would be speakers did 6 minute versions of TED talks with the prize being a chance to do a talk on the main TED stage next Feb at the main event. What I loved...
by JAK | May 27, 2012 | big ideas, TEDx
Yesterday I was at TEDxSydney live at the Carriageworks and it was a completely mind-blowing, epic, energising and surprisingly musical day. Unusually for me I left my twitter off and instead plugged straight into the equivalent of an 829 brain mega parrallel organic...
by JAK | May 25, 2012 | big data, big ideas, TED
Last week I heard a fascinating story about a project where conservation staff have developed a remote controlled microphone to record bird calls especially Kiwi in the wild. What was really interesting to me about the story was how they wrote some software to scan...
