Ideas, Updates and Thoughts
The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) presents a unique moment in the history of Modern Capitalism. Can capitalism work if there is a pause? A 2 week shutdown… 30 day… or even a couple months?
What does that mean going forward?
There have been calls for freezing on credit card interest, freeze on rent and mortgages – which all are essential cogs in the modern capitalist machine. So if this freeze is what is needed and we need a
...Here in Dubai, we are starting to come out of lockdown ahead of many other countries.
Dubai, under the Dubai Future Foundation initiative, has considered itself the testbed for the world. Inviting startups from around the world to prototype new technologies to help craft future regulations.
Now with Dubai’s enforced lockdown strategy coming to an end, it can serve as a testbed for the rest of the world and hopefully, set an example for how
...In racing, one’s starting position can affect the outcome of the race. The ‘starting position’ is the position from which movement is initiated, which holds true in various contexts.
Everyone assumes we start out in the same place but we don’t.
From economic circumstances and career progression, where we start can set us up for where we will be years down the line. It defines the obstacles we will go through and also the grit and resilience that
...Marc Andreessen recently wrote, IT’S TIME TO BUILD, an excerpt of what he wrote,
...“Medical equipment and financial conduits involve no rocket science whatsoever. At least therapies and vaccines are hard! Making masks and transferring money are not hard. We could have these things but we chose not to — specifically we chose not to have the mechanisms, the factories, the systems to make these things. We chose not to *build*.
You don’t just see this smug complacency, this
Back when I worked in the signage manufacturing industry, there was a principle I was taught and internalized: Signage plays a pivotal role in an environment’s experience.
This is typically thought of as just the aesthetics of a well-crafted, working sign and the thematic blending with the environment; however, it extends further into the UX (user experience) of a well-placed sign, its visibility and these ease of individuals in the space to find their way. Wayfinding, when done right, achieves
...Trust is accelerated in the virtual world.
We hail a ride from a stranger.
We swipe to go out with a stranger.
We buy into non-existing products on the promise of what they could become.
Our trust in the platform imbues the trust into the users.
These platforms are now the gatekeepers of our trust.
We believe in the power of technology.
The rate in which we trust one another is rapidly accelerated.
Trust begins with people, but is empowered
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January often represents a new start for people.
But then plans get pushed back, and we don’t start.
The best part about starting is you can just start.
Doesn’t need to be big. Doesn’t need to be perfect.
Just
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Many of us are used to the idea of mimicry as a ways to formulate new ideas. Biomimicry is a popular form of mimicry many seem to know about; as the Biomimicry Institute defines it, “an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies.” However there is another form of mimicry we often see, which is vilified due to outliers to the rule; which is what I like to call Competitive
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