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Do you live longer if you are overweight?
Posted by Paul 17 October 2009Science Daily has a release HERE describing a German study into the risks of being overweight or obese
“According to the authors’ analysis, overall mortality is unchanged by overweight, but increased by 20% by obesity, while extreme obesity raises it by up to 200%.”
Apart from the fact that the study was done using Body Mass Index [...]
Hanging out for an Android Phone and for a new business model
Posted by Paul 17 October 2009ZDNET has post HERE :
Android opens doors for Google’s next-gen search, ads and tools
“A year ago, there was only one Android device out there – the T-Mobile G-1. Today, Android is powering 12 devices in 26 countries with 32 carriers – and there’s more on the way.”
I am hanging out for a new Android phone [...]
Porn and the Future
Posted by Paul 18 August 2009I am commonly asked about methods we use to look at the future and what might happen. I often tell people that “the best guide to the future is previous behaviour”. Therefore anyone could have predicted that the internet would have been in part powered by pornography, crime, betting, shopping, and socialising. These are long [...]
Why we don’t like to think chance is the reason behind great stories
Posted by Paul 3 July 2009The Triumph of the Random
From banking to baseball, winning streaks owe much to the laws of chance
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204556804574261942466979118.html
This is a great article from the Wall St Journal about how chance and randomness plays a huge part in our lives but we all want to see patterns and believe success is due to hard work [...]
Something to Remember from Eric Schmidt of Google in answer to a question from Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine
Posted by Paul 3 July 2009This is a great short video of Eric Schmidt of Google at the Aspen ideas Festival.
It covers some interesting areas but I was particularly struck in his answer to a follow up question on whether the economy has fundamentally changed. His answer was ” I would like it to be true but my question to [...]
Always Connected – Off The Grid Services
Posted by Paul 29 June 2009I went last week to record an episode of a TV show where I was a contestant – Millionaire Hot Seat in Melbourne Victoria. They recorded 5 shows in one day and had a rehearsal for each one so it was a long day. As part of the requirements you were not allowed to bring [...]
Time Perspectives and its Effects on Success
Posted by Paul 23 June 2009Philip Zimbardo in an interesting talk at TED. Part of the talk looks at a study on children who were tested to see if they would take an immediate treat or wait for twice the treat. 2/3 went for the immediate treat and a follow up study 14 years later saw huge differences between the two groups – those that resisted and those that did not with the resist group having higher test scores, getting in less trouble, and being far more future focused.
Asymmetry, Iran and the Internet
Posted by Paul 22 June 2009
Great Quote – Your Company is being Managed by Dead People – to Paraphrase The Sixth Sense
Posted by Paul 14 June 2009“To a large extent , your company is being managed right now by a small coterie of long departed theorists and practitioners who invented the rules and conventions of modern management back in the early years of the 20th century”
— [...]
Railways, Knowledge and Cost Overruns
Posted by Paul 13 June 2009Luke Naismith at Knowledge Futures has put up an interesting post about cost overruns in the rail system in Victoria:
http://knowledgefutures.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/cost-overruns-on-rail-budgets-due-to-knowledge-loss/
The post touches on the question of whether to costs are in part due to loss of expertise. This highlights the question of knowledge management. We can codify certain sorts of knowledge where the [...]