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A few years ago I was considering setting up something like this for B2B startups that get stuffed around / dragged along / ghosted by corporates to try and change behaviour. Inclu…

This reminded me of a friend of my dad’s from South Africa - Don (Donald) Devine, who bought into a the Lighthouse Depot years ago and rode the (then) lighthouse fad. It was amazin…

Can you recommend where to find beginners projects that “do stuff”.

My first big startup had the following on the cover of the business plan (it disrupted consulting): “Some think, Some do, Some both, But few”. Got that from a lecturer.

I’ll try, but not succeed with a view from Australia.. Companies and governments have been concerned about data and AI sovereignty, and chip (processing) access. The new risks impo…

Reminds me of something that a Telco exec once said in jest - “A bank can track which hotel you stayed at last night, the Telco knows who you slept with”

I may write a post. A lot of the effort was removing weight without killing the aesthetics. It has been an awesome outlet for creativity and fiddling. I have built everything mysel…

I randomly bought a fire truck a few months ago. I was looking for something to convert into a camper van, and found my truck: (A) low mileage, compared to other trucks because of …

In developing countries (Africa, South Asia, South America) many of the banks were disrupted by mobile payments providers. Granted, it was more that they missed servicing the 80% o…

I often tell my people to “stop decking around”, or “don’t be a deckhead”…

Out of interest, who would be in the top X of that list?

> So AI isn't really a tool for creating substance. It's a tool for automating impression management. I was speaking to a design lecturer the other evening. His fascinating insight…

That’s fascinating. I get a big mental hiccup when trying to reference a group and am fearful to use the wrong terminology in case it causes offence / hurt / outrage. I never mean …

Years ago Johannesburg put in an Olympic bid. Because of the high altitude (1753m) they had issues affecting a number of disciplines when it came to records due to the thinner air.…

I wonder if SpaceX could put cameras on the far side of the Starlink satellites to make a network gazing outwards. To help compensate for the frustration they are causing astronome…

I’m not a scientist, but is it not at terminal velocity for most of the way down by definition? So it’s not slowing down to reach terminal velocity, it’s just that the resistance b…

Thanks - such an awesome perspective! I’ll pay more attention to the character and see how it goes! It will save a lot of internal frustration if I nail that!

Mmmm. I think I intuitively study like this, but I often have issues recalling the original word. For example - remembering “shy” for the dwarf “Bashful”, my brain will cycle throu…

Could he not just have bought the rights from the studio that owns “Her”, and have been in the clear?

I was brought to Pakistan in 2008 to help lead the launch of EasyPaisa, a mobile money platform. It was extreme, not only due to the scale of the launch (1000’s of branches on day …

Then imagine it feeding all of this through Neuralink as extra senses...

These kind of posts always remind me of a quote from the movie “life is Beautiful”… “There is nothing as necessary as the unnecessary…”

A few years ago I was thinking of how to use powerlines to recharge drones using the electromagnetic field. Imagine a drone hanging from a line like a bat, recharging in remote are…

Is this a possible solution? Gravitational lense telescope? https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI?feature=shared