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London Watch

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The YouTube algorithm can take you into odd places, so it was with me and the London Watch. The watch collecting community is a global connected bunch of super passionate and and seriously nerdy people. It’s not the kind of stuff I would generally have bothered with. Watch collectors, particularly at the premium to luxury […]

NORA

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Last week I heard the acronym NORA mentioned with regards the kind of problems that Microsoft’s algorithm could solve. NORA stands for no one real answer. Search is already pretty good at answering questions like ‘what time is it in Osaka’ or ‘what is the capital of Kazakhstan’. In the mid-2000s NORA would have been […]

Patagonia vest recession

Published: (Updated: ) in business | 商業 | 상업 | ビジネス, culture | 文明 | 미디어와 예술 | 人文, economics | 經濟學 | 경제학 | 経済, finance | 은행업, jargon watch | 術語定義 | 용어의 정의 | 用語の定義, media | 媒體 | 미디어 | メディア, online | 線上 | 온라인으로 | オンライン, style | 時尚 | 유행 | ファッション, technology | 技術 | 기술 | テクノロジー by .

The Patagonia vest recession was a phrase that I first heard touted by Scott Galloway to encapsulate the economy in 2022. In most recessions, the first sectors to go under are construction, retailing and manufacturing – blue and pink collar working class people suffer the blunt of lay-offs and site closures due to recession. The […]

New Power by Heimans & Timms

Published: (Updated: ) in consumer behaviour | 消費者行為 | 소비자 행동, ideas | 想法 | 생각 | 考える, japan |日本 | 일본, jargon watch | 術語定義 | 용어의 정의 | 用語の定義, online | 線上 | 온라인으로 | オンライン by .

New Power by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms was recommended to me by a friend of mine who works with a number of campaigning organisations. It took four years after it was published for me to take it down from the shelf and get stuck in. Since then, we have had the Hong Kong protests, […]

Tectonic shift + more stuff

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Tectonic shift The heat from radioactive processes within the planet’s interior causes the plates to move, sometimes toward and sometimes away from each other. This movement is called plate motion, or tectonic shift National Ocean Service of the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Zeitenwende German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declaration of a zeitenwende […]