I was a regular attendee of COP over the past decade in different capacities. I didn’t attend last year or this year, but I’ve been watching with real interest what is unfolding in Brazil. Let me start by saying the world needs good intentions. If everyone who was fortunate enough to be in a position to have the time and space to think of others actually did so, we would all be living in a different world. Good intention is not the whole answer — but it is a necessary beginni

Earlier this week I wrote about social media and coincidentally i was speaking to a friend in New York who has a very cool social media platform. When we were chatting I mentioned A Small World back in the 2000's. She didn't quite understand my reference, being much younger than me. But it made me think about ASW and I spent some time digging out something that I wrote back in maybe 2007. A a time when social media was very new, and the ultimate social media platform was A Sm

Lately I keep coming back to the line from Epictetus — ‘It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.’  It’s a phrase that’s survived 2500 years because it’s true. For me life is, and always has been, a series of unpredictable events. What for one person seems to work out, another seems to always be a struggle. With events interweaved together and with outcomes driven by the behaviours that we adapt to react to them. To this end I’ve been thinking about

I watched with interest the developments in Nepal last week. The events there really seem to focus many of the trends and tensions enrapturing the world right now into a singularity: the impact of social media on social cohesion, technology’s effect on the contentment of citizens, the widening generational gap, and the economic pressures on youth as inequality becomes more evident. These tension points in Nepal will sound familiar to UK and US readers, I’m sure. Like much of

Perhaps Britain’s present frustrations are not thirty years in the making but a thousand. To understand today, we would benefit from looking beyond immigration or Brexit and rediscover the middle layers of community that once held the nation together.

Can we build next generation societies where income improvements don't come at the expense of community.

Foreword I wrote the article below three or four years ago for a UK publication called Finance Derivative -  this was before “explainable...

The very unusual but special experience of having my portrait taken by David Bailey.

There’s a quiet arrogance embedded in global finance — a belief that compliance is universal, that identity is binary, that “knowing your...

When most people talk about Web 3.0, they talk about decentralisation, tokenomics, and blockchain architecture. But for me, that’s the...