When you think of stakeholders, what comes to mind? If you answered ‘HIPPOs’ or ‘people who love acronyms’, you wouldn’t be entirely wrong! Stakeholders are usually senior-level people in organisations like function leaders, directors, and the C-Suite. Because they may be time-poor and less accessible, it can be easy to…

What is Human Lag?

“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics” Nobel Laureate in Economics, Robert Solow (1987) For all of the headlines about technology’s ability to make us more productive, we seem to be working more hours — not less. And while we feel busier than ever, it’s…

Did you know that watching yourself while on a video call can actually increase the amount of processing your brain needs to do? Our brains detect dissonance when we see ourselves in the mirrored view and need to process the input. We have a limited cognitive load we can process…

A Growing Infodemic In 2009, the New York Times reported on a study that found that the average American consumed around 34GB of data and information each day, representing an increase of 350% over nearly three decades. That’s the equivalent of consuming around 100,000 words every single day (about 2 books per day…

I’ve been fascinated with how our relationship with technology is evolving over the past 20 years. By far the most intriguing aspect of this relationship is the power we willingly hand over to technology companies. …

I love spreadsheets! I genuinely do. It may possibly be the nerdiest thing I’ve ever admitted to. Maybe it’s the IKEA effect, having invested 20 years honing vlookup skills, formatting pivot tables, and choosing just the right graph to make my financial data mean something to someone, or maybe I…

We’ve all come up with great promises to ourselves like getting more exercise, saving money, reading more books, seeing friends more often, or finally doing that MBA. I may even have made the same promises to myself over the past few years — assuring myself that this year will be…