I recently came across a video that perfectly illustrates the power of a synthesised mindset in action. In the clip, a front-loader driver gets his vehicle across a canal without the tracks ever touching the water. Rather than trying to drive through the water, he uses the boom and bucket to “walk” the vehicle across, […]
Fake News, Algo Filtering, Deepfakes… All are symptoms of a much larger problem, ‘The Death of Common Knowledge’. What happens when society disagrees with basic facts? Water boils at 100oC. The moon orbits the earth. There are 365 days in a year. The pandemic has highlighted how polarised society can be on what’s agreed to […]
It’s worth remembering that modern Psychology is only around 130 years old. Yet spirituality (arguably) has its roots in Neanderthals choosing to bury their dead. We see pioneers at the edge of modern science discover the spiritualists and mystics were always right in their understanding of what it means to be human. Academics such as […]
VUCA was originally born from the US military in the 1990s. It is an acronym describing the Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity in the world as it appeared to be evolving. An example of volatility is how oil prices reached nearly US$155 in 2008, only to drop as low as $48 later in the year. […]
