Along with my personal / professional history, am sharing here direct lived-experience strategies of how I work with others when it comes to their own oratory practice—making the case for not using scripts and how to manage nerves as well as analysing the impact of the success of my recent TEDx talk with a nice little social media rant at the end.
Thank you again Noa (and Ash from the tech side) for the opportunity to participate and for what you’re doing by creating this platform / space for others to share their stories along with your wonderful curiosity which drives the conversation in all the episodes.
A few chosen narrative examples, to uncover forms, inspire the soul and stir the creative spirits.
Loving the conversational manner of this video deconstructing and showing / applying / exploring the bass playing of Steve Harris from Iron Maiden (one of my favourite bands from youth). The two camera set-up and post production narrative editing to creates a distinct format flow which keeps your attention (even if you’re not a bass player or into the music).
Revealed through a static view of a fixed cam, here’s a visual feast showing all the camera operators and angles, dancers and tech people, backdrops and lighting, in-sync and aligned to create this one-shot music video by Jungle. This literal and layered choreography makes my brain tingle in all the right ways as a producer!
A nostalgic look behind one of the most popular songs of 1993, watch and learn from the song writer and uncover both the stories behind a song and also the wonderful insight in how the place-holder of the “mmm’s” becomes the hook to the whole tune.
“Amazon has previously mismanaged Alexa voice recordings. In 2023, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million in civil penalties over the revelation that it stored recordings of children’s interactions with Alexa forever. Adults also didn’t feel properly informed of Amazon’s inclination toward keeping Alexa recordings unless prompted not to until 2019—five years after the first Echo came out. If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings to train its speech recognition and natural language understanding systems.” Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 – Ars Technica
“When the company first announced it was considering a sale, we highlighted many of the potential issues, including selling that data to companies with poor security practices or direct links to law enforcement. With this bankruptcy, the concerns we expressed last year remain the same. It is unclear what will happen with your genetic data if 23andMe finds a buyer, and that uncertainty is a clear indication that you should consider deleting your data.” How to Delete Your 23andMe Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation
“To prevent the threatened setbacks to US innovation and risks to national security, OpenAI urged Trump to enact a federal law that preempts state laws attempting to regulate AI threats to things like consumer privacy or election integrity, like deepfakes or facial recognition. That federal law, OpenAI suggested, should set up a “voluntary partnership between the federal government and the private sector,” where AI companies trade industry knowledge and model access for federal “relief” and “liability protections” from state laws. Additionally, OpenAI wants protections from international laws that it claims risk slowing down America’s AI development.” OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use – Ars Technica
“Perhaps the closest we’ve seen to a justification has come from “Crypto Czar” David Sacks, who reiterated that the US would not sell any of the bitcoin and wrote on Twitter that “It will be kept as a store of value. The Reserve is like a digital Fort Knox for the cryptocurrency often called ‘digital gold’”. But this argument doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny, even setting aside the already questionable nature of bitcoin’s usefulness as a “store of value”. If an asset will indeed never be sold, how would the US draw upon its stored value in order to, say, backstop the dollar or pay outstanding debts? What’s the point of a store of value if that value can never be accessed?” Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles
“The group cited several of the administration’s actions such as the mass termination of federal employees, the appointment of Trump loyalists in key government positions, the withdrawal from international efforts such as the World Health Organization and the UN Human Rights Council, the freezing of federal and foreign aid and the attempted dismantling of USAid. The organization warned that these decisions “will likely impact civic freedoms and reverse hard-won human rights gains around the world”. The group also pointed to the administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters, and the Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to control media access to presidential briefings, among others.” US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms | US news | The Guardian
“Professor Mark Bateman, from the University of Sheffield’s School of Geography and Planning, used a dating technique called Optically Stimulated Luminescence, to discover the burial age of individual grains of sand from eight samples throughout the site. His work showed that the archaeological site extended back from 12,000 years ago right through to around 150,000 years ago. These results were then corroborated by Electron Spin Resonance dating. “It is incredibly interesting to take a grain of ancient sand and be the first to know when it was deposited. It is even more so when the age of the sand changes what we know of how, and where, our ancient ancestors lived.”” Scientists find earliest evidence that our ancestors lived in rainforests 150,000 years ago | News | The University of Sheffield
“A more effective model charges for the full engagement, encompassing four key phases: – Discovery – Understanding the client’s needs, challenges, and objectives. This phase involves research, conversations, and assessing the right approach. – Defining Scope – Establishing the framework for delivery, including the intended outcomes, process, and deliverables. This ensures clarity for both parties. – Delivery – The actual execution, whether that’s a keynote speech, coaching session, advisory engagement, or facilitation. By this stage, the foundation has been laid for maximum impact. – Debriefing & Follow-Up – Evaluating outcomes, providing reflections, and offering ongoing insights to support long-term success.” The Folly of Hourly Charging — David McQueen | Executive Leadership Coach
goeuropean.org is a community-driven directory bringing you recommendations and insights from across Europe (if you’re looking to use move your purchase power away from certain places).
The Creativity Pioneers Fund is a global unrestricted grant of 5,000 euros for non-profit organizations around the world, that are addressing social and environmental issues through creativity and culture, established in 2021 by the Moleskine Foundation (apply before April 7th 2025).
Distilling the core tenets to align more to my own personal values.
Been exploring Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way” twelve week course for the past few weeks and took the time to turn my attention to the ‘basic principles’ as one of my ‘morning pages’ activities:
“CREATIVITY IS NATURAL AND GIVES ENERGY TO LIFE. UNLEASH AND EMBODY AND CELEBRATE YOUR OWN CREATION TO GIFT BACK TO THE WORLD YOUR NATURAL AND CREATIVE SELF. MOVE IN THE DIRECTION OF ABUNDANCE AND POSITIVENESS. IT IS SAFE TO OPEN YOURSELF UP TO GREATER AND GREATER CREATIVITY.”
“We believe that electing the Ocean to be a Trustee of SAMS is one of the most important decisions in our history. It challenges outdated models of governance and champions a future where the ocean’s voice is central to decision-making. That the Ocean should be represented in our governance might seem, at first blush, to be a gimmick, even whimsical. We are conscious that the move could be seen as trivial or ‘greenwashing’. After all, as a non-profit marine research organisation, surely SAMS always has the best interests of the Ocean in mind? But after several months of careful discussion and debate, the Trustees are convinced that even with a strong empathy for ocean conservation and a well-informed understanding of marine environmental matters, our decision-making is essentially anthropocentric; human interests are given precedence, and concern is limited to the impact on the Ocean rather than the interests of the Ocean.” News – The Ocean enters the boardroom — The Scottish Association for Marine Science
“…the British government’s undisclosed order was issued last month, and requires the capability to view all encrypted material in iCloud. The core target is Apple’s Advanced Data Protection, which is an optional feature that turns on end-to-end encryption for backups and other data stored in iCloud, making it so that even Apple cannot access that information. For a long time, iCloud backups were a loophole for law enforcement to gain access to data otherwise not available to them on iPhones with device encryption enabled. That loophole still exists for anyone who doesn’t opt in to using Advanced Data Protection. If Apple does comply, users should consider disabling iCloud backups entirely. Perhaps most concerning, the U.K. is apparently seeking a backdoor into users’ data regardless of where they are or what citizenship they have.” The UK’s Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All | Electronic Frontier Foundation
“Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta’s unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented “at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen,” the authors’ court filing said. And “Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen.” ”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed – Ars Technica
“For the new study, Lupyan and Nedergaard recruited 47 participants who scored the highest for having an inner voice and 46 who registered low scores—roughly in the top and bottom fifths of scores. They then gave these participants four language-related tasks they thought might be influenced by the use of inner speech. In the first, participants were briefly shown five words and asked to repeat them back. The second involved participants saying whether the names of objects in two pictures rhymed. In both experiments the group with less inner speech was less accurate in their responses. For the rhyme judgements, people with more inner speech were also faster. “This wide-ranging study really tests what inner speech gives us in terms of cognitive benefits,” Fernyhough says.” Not Everyone Has an Inner Voice Streaming through Their Head | Scientific American
“Here are just some of the factors in the Startup Drake Equation, the failure of any one of which is terminal: – Product that people want to pay for (really) – Able to grab those people’s attention amidst the noisy Internet – Pricing that those people will accept (and that is greater than your costs) – Competitive and distinctive enough to be chosen – Able to build the product as promised by the home page – Sustained value-delivery months and years later, so customers stay and keep paying – Able to fund the venture, either through early profits or fundraising – Able to work well with co-founders (or able do it all alone) – Develop a repeatable and profitable customer acquisition process – Able to attract and retain talent – Able to psychologically handle many years of deep effort, stress, and pain – Get lucky on occasion” The Startup Drake Equation
1,000,000 views x 19mins (talk) = 13,194days / 1,884weeks/ 36years of watch time.
Start with spending 30 years online, participating in online communities, curating good stuff as a way of honing your taste and building a network of positivity.
Then spend 20 years and a lot of money / time attending other peoples events, learning what excellence looks like in terms of storytelling and delivery whilst also connecting folks you meet to others you know as a pro-social act of being a human.
And finally, add in about another decade of getting paid as a coach in the topic you’ll be speaking on, constantly sharpening your craft, building out services, delivering 1-2-1s and masterclasses and courses, so that you can then have a trove of experiences to reference.
BIG thanks to TEDxNelson and the team there for the opportunity and EVERYONE who watched / shared.
I am gratefully astonished.
One million views is the most popular thing I’ve ever done.
Building on the above, this was the other stuff I did to nudge things along:
OWNED
When the video went live in December 2022 I blogged about it and shared on via my social media channels. I kept tracking and blogging when it hit numeric milestones which included 100,000 (which included the announcement of a pre-order of my new book, see below) 250,000, 500,000 (which included a giveaway for the community also) and 750,000 views.
A whole bunch of strangers have bought it and the digital bundle has been shared with all my clients ever since as a freebie.
Obviously, it references back to the talk often and would definitely have aided awareness.
Did a whole bunch of LinkedIn postings over the past couple of years (and Twitter when I was still on there) using the following clipped pieces to activate interest. And a banner was added to the top of my website whereby visitors can quickly access the talk:
Shared the talk as a resource to my speaker coaching clients who I know in turn have shared it with others in their network.
EARNED
I leveraged my direct TEDx experience in formulating a punchy title for the talk which would both ignite curiosity as well as be easily found in search terms. There’s also the talk description which again is key for being ‘findable’ along with ensuring a short bio. and most importantly, a clickable link back to my website.
For about half a year I responded to a few reddit communities regarding public speaking queries, offering advice and insights whilst adding in the link to my talk (being conscious not to just spam but to respond direct to the questions and adding in the talk as a further overview if relevant).
Got featured in some podcasts either as a direct result of my talk where the folks found me through or where others in my network thought it warranted exploration. This obviously helped introduce it to brand new communities I would never have gotten by myself:
Took out a couple of Google Ads early on and spent a couple hundred bucks on them. For some reason can’t get into my account online but seem to recall it created a few hundred click-throughs.
I also spent the same amount on Blaze over a six week campaign about a year ago, achieving about 144,000 impressions and approximately 400 click-throughs, which is a 0.27777777777778% rate of actual engagement.
As you can see, the growth has been a mix of building on a legacy of activity as a foundation, then leveraging ‘owned’ media channels, ‘earning’ access to other peoples networks through features and it being shared on, very little paid activity, plus organic growth through all the cross-posting which aids the web-rankings and search.
Hope all the above aids someone out there when it comes your turn to step on the red spot and wishing you all the best with it (hit me up if you need some coaching)!
“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post. I doubt my decision will cause much of a stir and that it will be dismissed because I’m just a cartoonist. But I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness”—image and quote source from the artist herself
“Musk is speedrunning the enshittification curve, and yet Twitter isn’t collapsing. Why not? Because Musk is insulated from consequences for fucking up – he’s got a huge cushion of wealth, he’s got advertisers who are desperate to reach his users, he’s got users who can’t afford to leave the service, he’s got IP law that he can use to block interoperators who might make it easier to migrate to a better service. He was always a greedy, sadistic asshole. Now he’s an unconstrained greedy, sadistic asshole. Musk 2025 isn’t a worse person than Musk 2020. He’s just more free to act on his evil impulses than he was in years gone by.” Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
“According to Meta’s testimony, as relayed by plaintiffs’ counsel, Zuckerberg cleared the use of LibGen to train at least one of Meta’s Llama models despite concerns within Meta’s AI exec team and others at the company. The filing quotes Meta employees as referring to LibGen as a “data set we know to be pirated,” and flagging that its use “may undermine [Meta’s] negotiating position with regulators.” The filing also cites a memo to Meta AI decision-makers noting that after “escalation to MZ,” Meta’s AI team “[was] approved to use LibGen.” (MZ, here, is rather obvious shorthand for “Mark Zuckerberg.”)” Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch
“I’ve always lived my life restlessly: business travel, a new home every few years, a relentless pursuit for something more. Some have called it ambition; others say I’m driven. I just think I have a hard time sitting still – physically and mentally. There’s undoubtedly a propulsive energy that keeps me going. Is my RLS the kinetic force? Perhaps it is. And maybe not. Of course, I’ve suffered for decades. But I like the idea that my physical restlessness parallels how I navigate the rest of my life. Certainly, thinking about RLS as something more than twitchy legs is the only thing that partially calms my brain as I saunter into bed hoping, praying, that tonight I might finally lay still.” I clock up to 20,000 steps a night: my life with restless legs syndrome | Well actually | The Guardian
“During a seven-day trial in June, 2023, the 16 youth plaintiffs argued that the state’s promotion of fossil fuel infrastructure had jeopardized their physical and mental health, traditions, and recreational interests. Anthropogenic climate change has already had myriad impacts on Montana, including shorter winters with less snowfall, more frequent wildfires, and the reduced availability of wild game and ceremonial and medicinal plants. These impacts are expected to worsen as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise.” ‘We have been heard’: Montana youth score a major climate victory in court | Grist
“And given the nature of these other devices and that users won’t realize what’s taking place, there are serious implications. Identity Week warns that “organizations using Google’s advertising tech can implement fingerprinting without violating Google’s policies and complying with the requirements of data protection law… Fingerprinting is so hindering to privacy expectations because it relies on signals that are not easy to wipe. Even if data is ‘permanently’ deleted, fingerprinting biometrics could detect and recognize your identity.” Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 6 Weeks—Forget Chrome And Android
“The planets are not exactly lined up, so they will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System. During clear nights in January and February, all of the planets except Mercury will be visible – an event sometimes called a planetary parade. On 28 February, though – weather permitting – all seven planets will be visible, a great spectacle for observers on the ground.” Seven planets are lining up in the sky next month. This is what it really means – BBC Future
Installed StopTheMadness to get rid of the insipid ‘Sign-in with Google’ pop-up plus block many other stupid web things and is working great (worth the money).
Always on the hunt to learn from others and how they approach coaching storytellers in the world, and the above added some gems to my current knowledge. Jeremy Connell-Waite currently works for IBM as a Communications Designer and in the video above gives us a wonderful breakdown of Ted Sorensen’s (JFK’s speechwriter) “4 Words & 5 Lines” concept. Superb stuff.
For the majority of this video only two camera shots are used: the main one focused on the table where nearly all of the action takes place and the second a hand-held side shot for a few close-up vignettes. Added to these is the simple descriptive overlay of each of the elements and stages taking place. Only the last three minutes do the framing change to oversee the stretching of the dough and formation of the noodles. No words are spoken but a tale is told in how to make Chinese hand-pulled noodles.
It was a year of living my personal and professional standards.
This meant orienting away from people and a path which had already eroded much of my time, had taken me away from cherished communities, emptied my energy / bank account / sense of belonging and left me adrift.
These decisions were massively challenging although were right to make, and made easier by those who ask for mundane, those who say things then do the opposite, those who prefer to stay small and who have yet to develop the courage to take responsibility for situations they have created!
It truly was not a good year for others bringing positiveness to my life, however, it was one in which I discovered my own worth… then I added tax!
The talk is flirting with the one-million-views mark so currently working out what to do to recognise this. Sign up in the sidebar to get that notification as will announce it on my blog.
The accompanying Speaking With Purpose book continues to sell in its tens… many purchasers have gotten in touch afterwards saying nice things and / or asking follow-up questions.
I’m currently story-boarding a ten-part videos series on my three pillar approach and it being applied in different ways, so again stay tuned to that in the first half of the new year via this blog.
FEATURES
Was quadruply-thrilled to be invited to participate / featured in the following podcasts:
After chalking up a healthy five-figure return which sustained me through the lean-years of post-Covid-times, will now be folding the lessons and insights into the following:
NEW SERVICE
Launched publicly after a successful pilot with a multi-national (who promptly ordered a second cohort plus now in talks for future ones in 2025), the Purposeful Storytelling Impact Course is a tailored leadership learning experience, aimed at greatly improving storytelling techniques and oratory skills, as well as enhancing the capability to deliver exceptional showcase presentations across diverse fields.
Here are some quotes from those who have participated:
“I appreciated the three pronged approach that DK showed us, backed by the wealth of experience he brings to the training. Public speaking is such an art and with practice and the right training, can be a powerful tool for delivering story and message.”
“This course provided me with the mindset, toolsets and experience/feedback to confidently approach speaking in a modern context. The quotes inspired me, the challenges felt relevant and the peer support (in addition to expert feedback) helped me develop quickly.”
“Overall, the entire course was wonderful. Really appreciate the guidance provided by DK. It was also a great opportunity to network and build connections with colleagues across the globe, with such diverse backgrounds and areas of work expertise.”
“Thank you for an amazing few weeks. I learned so much, i was pushed out of my comfort zone, and I’m looking forward to applying these techniques to my work.”
“DK and the overall training have been extremely professional, appropriately safe and fun. I enjoyed it plenty and learned a lot! Judging this as a highly impactful and worthwhile investment into the success of our people and with it our company at scale. I was and am grateful for the chance to participate in this first cohort.”
“I appreciated the three pronged approach that DK showed us, backed by the wealth of experience he brings to the training. Public speaking is such an art and with practice and the right training, can be a powerful tool for delivering story and message.”
“I really enjoyed this program and am so glad we piloted it with the group we had. There was community within the cohort and I look forward to working alongside a powerful group of speakers. Thank you DK for sharing your brilliance. Your coaching and guidance was supportive and affirming, and you created a space that encouraged respect for the craft. Appreciate you!”
If you care about having your leaders internally gain crucial oratory / communication skills then this is something to check out and then get in touch to explore booking.
SPEAKER COACHING
Always a joy to sit and collaborate with others on their voice and story, plus how they will share that with the world.
As I continue to hone my speaker coaching skills I’m finding a lot more fluidity in approaches I’m taking, informed by the accrued years of practice, an intuition stemming from the thousands of individuals I can now say I’ve interacted with. And even so, I continue to learn constantly and constantly reevaluate the limits of my own understanding in this discipline.
Along with the 1-2-1’s (which now includes an Olympian in my alumni of clients), I continue to offer speaker coaching through my established half/full day ‘purposeful storytelling’ masterclass sessions (foundation and advanced options available), again, get in touch for more info.
CREATIVE PRODUCING
Apart from some pro-bono and friend-consulting in this space have done very little this year. Although triple-keen to explore briefs from those looking to gather humans in one room for ‘delicious learning experiences’—check out my pedigree and lets talk.
I did sign up for Mastodon and Bluesky although not interested in diverting my time from other things to cultivate a following on there or diluting my curative / creative efforts.
Tumblr has become my go-back-to curation platform and have enjoyed the interesting things it thinks I should be interested in, but again, spend no time on there shaping the feeds and not using it beyond feeding my monthly digital breadcrumbs posts.
As where I get my information and stimulation from, am going back to the more ‘traditional’ blogs and online communities like Reddit plus personal newsletters (especially ones with RSS feeds I can pull into my reader).
So for now the focus will be blogging and creating here (again, sign-up in the sidebar please).
2025
I’m hungry to find the edges of things, to build, rebuild, to collaborate, to Shake The Dust, plus orient towards those who are principle-led and celebrate / nurture creative actioneers.
For this reason I’m taking the opportunity to return to Aotearoa New Zealand (for at least six months) and in terms of future travels, unless something radical and wonderful occurs, will be staying put for a while as really need to ‘land’ somewhere to counter the adrift-ness being felt deeply.
So what about you? Where do you find yourself at the beginning of the new calendar year? How can I serve / add value in your adventures in 2025?And if nothing else, please feel me sending you light:
“On one hand, the predators in the Dark Internet Forest are the mega-platforms themselves, at the core of which are machines for turning human action and feeling into saleable data objects. On the other hand, the predators are clearly us: Individual people doing galaxy-brain bad-faith readings of other people’s banal posts for the juice and swarms of people looking for ideological opponents to mob, largely as a way of claiming or defending quasi-spatial territory: This is ours, not yours. We don’t do that here.” against the dark forest
“…Amazon had refused during the inquiry to disclose how it used data recorded from Alexa devices, Kindle or Audible to train its AI. Google too, he said, had refused to answer questions about what user data from its services and products it used to train its AI products. Meta admitted it had been scraping from Australian Facebook and Instagram users since 2007, in preparation for future AI models. But the company was unable to explain how users could consent for their data to be used for something that did not exist in 2007. Sheldon said Meta dodged questions about how it used data from its WhatsApp and Messenger products.” Amazon, Google and Meta are ‘pillaging culture, data and creativity’ to train AI, Australian inquiry finds | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
“For most people in the U.S., the threats that they face and the methods by which they are likely to be surveilled or harassed have not changed, but the consequences of digital privacy or security failures may become much more serious, especially for vulnerable populations such as journalists, activists, LGBTQ+ people, people seeking or providing abortion-related care, Black or Indigenous people, and undocumented immigrants. EFF has decades of experience in providing digital privacy and security resources, particularly for vulnerable people. We’ve written a lot of resources over the years and here are the top ten that we think are most useful right now:” Top Ten EFF Digital Security Resources for People Concerned About the Incoming Trump Administration | Electronic Frontier Foundation
“Spotify, I discovered, not only has partnerships with a web of production companies, which, as one former employee put it, provide Spotify with “music we benefited from financially,” but also a team of employees working to seed these tracks on playlists across the platform. In doing so, they are effectively working to grow the percentage of total streams of music that is cheaper for the platform. The program’s name: Perfect Fit Content (PFC). The PFC program raises troubling prospects for working musicians. Some face the possibility of losing out on crucial income by having their tracks passed over for playlist placement or replaced in favor of PFC; others, who record PFC music themselves, must often give up control of certain royalty rights that, if a track becomes popular, could be highly lucrative. But it also raises worrying questions for all of us who listen to music. It puts forth an image of a future in which—as streaming services push music further into the background, and normalize anonymous, low-cost playlist filler—the relationship between listener and artist might be severed completely.” The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
“StumbleUpon commanded a massive influence in the early 2010s. For many, it became the go-to place to waste time online. People were hitting the Stumble button over a billion times a month at the height of its powers. By some measures, more than half of the traffic that social media platforms sent to other parts of the internet in 2011 came from StumbleUpon – it sometimes beat out Facebook, even though StumbleUpon had hundreds of millions fewer users.” ‘There was almost a utopian feeling to it’: How StumbleUpon pioneered the way we use the internet
“Quantum computing – which harnesses the discovery that matter can exist in multiple states at once – is predicted to have the power to carry out far bigger calculations than previously possible and so hasten the creation of nuclear fusion reactors and accelerate the impact of artificial intelligence, notably in medical science. For example, it could allow MRI scans to be read in atom-level detail, unlocking new caches of data about human bodies and disease for AI to process, Google said. But there are also fears that without guardrails, the technology has the power to crack even the most sophisticated encryption, undermining computer security.” Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip | Computing | The Guardian
WATCH
EXPLORE
Make It Yourself is a pdf with links to a 1000 useful DIY projects.
Times New Dumbass is inspired by Elon Musk’s attempt to do a star-jump.
Does what it says on the tin: Page Printer creates a printer ready pdf from a url.
121 Brands That Matter in 2024 is Fast Company’s attempt to list those who have made a mark in marketing rather than anything else—still a list to peruse.
B612 is a free and open source font and is the result of a research project initiated by Airbus to improve the display of information on the cockpit screens.
A little ‘manifesto’ regarding humanity’s place in the Universe and our role in its future, by investor Yuri Milner (basically advocating for evolving our species into the cosmos).
Nominations for the Trustbuilding Awards are open which aim to recognise and uplift outstanding organisations and individuals in trustbuilding, empower youth efforts to create a more cohesive future, and inspire higher standards for trustbuilders worldwide (applications close on 15 February 2025).
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