Readying for the Future

My daughter Bethan and I were talking about her options for when she goes to University, which will make me so proud. She asked me what I would do? Thinking carefully not to be the smothering father, but to offer some insights, I said “we need to think how smart a human you can be for the Smart Machine Age” I only studied the Industrial Revolution in history at college but I vividly recall decades of uncertainty as people lost their jobs to automation. The same will happen in the…

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A PowerPoint Trade Secret

A PowerPoint Trade secret from Paul Archer on Vimeo. Have you ever run a PowerPoint presentation with lots of bullets which whiz across when you click the remote and you’re never really sure which is the last bullet? Paul gives you an idea to help you know which is the last one in a sub two minute Whiteboard Video clip

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Gentrify your development

I was born in 1963 to loving parents in a post war Council House and as I grew up I had fond memories of the devoted way I was brought up. Our house was just like the next door neighbours, which was the same as the one next door to them, which was identical to the next one. And so on. Until 1986, as my parents bought their council house for a song under the Right to Buy scheme. Soon everyone in my neighbourhood bought their homes and a transformation…

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