Who

Who is going to buy all these new houses that are being built in the UK? Where we live within a 3 mile radius it seems there are new mega housing estates being built, ones with 400+ houses. Without even thinking I can think of 6 or 7, & that doesn’t include all the 75…

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Making lemonade

Banks still running on 1960’s mainframes. 33% of small insurance claims paid & settled on the spot, by bots. Small business loans typically taking 6 months now taking days. If your interested in Finance, Technology & Disruption, listen to this weeks fascinating Exponential View podcast ‘Disrupting Finance‘ Show notes: Artificial intelligence is unlocking new value…

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Holiday read

So many good books out there that I would like to read, when I used to get the train to work I’d get through a book about every two weeks, spending 2.5 hours on the train a day makes it pretty easy. The book I’ve chosen to read on my upcoming holiday is: The Lean…

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Plastic

I was reading a post on my sisters blog the other day about how to reduce plastic use which got me thinking. I always try to use local stores & farm shops, if we stop using them they will disappear, and their produce normally tastes better, a lot better than the supermarket stuff. However I…

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The iPod of Virtual Reality

This was the headline of an article to hit my inbox this morning. I was surprised when the VR in question was Oculus. I don’t know why I was surprised but I was, Oculus was the VR company bought by Facebook for $2.3 billion in 2014. “In nearly 15 years of writing about cutting-edge technology,…

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Got my fix

“Dude I caught my tube today!”, well not quite but I did get my first fix. My fix contained five items: Shorts 2 x Shirts (long & short sleeved) T shirt Polo shirt My initial reaction was that I would return them all, but StitchFix encourage you to try on all the items & leave…

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