I backed a project last week on Kickstarter – Gameful: A secret HQ for Worldchanging Game Developers by Jane McGonigal. I think it’s quite an exciting project that is going to take place, as McGonigal builds a network around people who want to create games with outcomes for social change. In her recent TED talk, [...]

The importance of using a hypothesis to drive your project development progress is something that is becoming more and more widely used today. Thanks to the work of Eric Ries and Steve Blank, we now have the lean start-up methodology of managing projects to use. Whilst the theory is wide and covers a lot, I’d like to focus on one [...]

Dave McClure wrote this post on Moneyball investment and it sparked some thoughts for me. Moneyball was all about looking for new metrics in an old game. Instead of looking for strong traditional results in potential recruits – like pace, arm or home runs hit – the Oakland A’s General Manager, Billy Beane, looked for subtle stats [...]

In one of my last posts, I briefly discussed the idea of cognitive surplus, which has been coined by Clay Shirky. Cognitive Surplus is the idea that we are unleashing more and more of our collective abilities as we choose to do different things with our time. The classic example is Wikipedia, which has been created [...]

I’m lucky enough to be working with the very talented Bruno Mattarollo, from Pollenizer, at the moment. He often says the following sentence…”…of course we can do that…it’s 2010″ Technology is progressing at a phenomenal pace – we all know this. There is Moores Law, which states that processing power on computers doubles every 18 months or so. Karim [...]

Things are getting more and more complex here on planet earth. Through this complexity we have to get much better at learning to spot the hints and tips that lead us towards the things we want to find. The search for positive signals has become one of the best tools in our belt for detecting [...]