Why We All Need Solitary Confinement
We have it backwards. Completely, utterly backwards. When we think of solitary confinement, our minds conjure images of punishment, isolation, psychological torture. We imagine the poor soul locked away from…
Open Bank – background, benefits and beneficiaries
What is Open Banking? Open banking is a regulatory framework that requires banks to provide secure, standardized access to customer financial data through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This system allows…
Writing Away: the best ideas emerge away from home!
There's an irony in the fact that I do most of my writing at the same desk where I spend most working days. The glass desk surface that bears witness…
How Open Banking Opened Minds
There's a moment in every revolutionary change when the impossible becomes inevitable. It happened when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile—suddenly, dozens of runners achieved what had seemed physiologically impossible…
Why Your Next Promotion Might Come from Doing Someone Else’s Job
In the 1984 film The Karate Kid, young Daniel LaRusso arrives at Mr. Miyagi's house expecting to learn devastating kicks and lightning-fast punches. Instead, he's handed a cloth and told…
Why Optimists Have Happier Lives than Pessimists
In our journey through life, we are often faced with challenges and setbacks. How we perceive and respond to these obstacles can greatly impact our overall happiness and well-being. Optimists,…
The Art of Apparently Stupid Questions: A Masterclass in Intelligence
We'll delve into a topic that may initially seem paradoxical: why some of the most brilliant minds in the world often pose seemingly stupid questions. Prepare to have your preconceived…
Achieve better results by doing the opposite
Getting home It was a rainy Thursday evening in October. As I approached the westbound Docklands Light Railway platform, I realised it was stacked 6 layers of commuters thick -…
Make your work more visible
I am an example of the self-deprecating type, having bought into Confucius's view that "Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues". As a result, I tend to play down…
The best solutions manifest when the problem is clearly defined!
I work in technology. My role, along with the entire technology organisation that I am part of, is to provide optimal solutions for the problems we have been asked to address.…