Wise words from the Dalai Lama. I need to read this every day.

I was lucky enough to spend a few days at the Economists Tech Frontiers conferences last week. A fascinating lineup of speakers introduced where they thought things were going.

Recurring themes:

Iterate Iterate Iterate - don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

We are all story telling machines - telling stories is what we want, what we respond to, and what we do best, regardless of the medium.

It’s only just begun - Moores law has a long while yet to run, and we’re just at the beginning of the tech revolution.

My highlights

Bran Ferren opened with

“We borrow from China to pay the Arabs for oil, and then burn it”

- not necessarily a reliable business model!

Bran’s main view was ‘you ain’t seen nothing yet’ and that we’re only at the very beginning of a massive rise in technology. His graph showing traditional business failing as tech rose went down well.

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Using the iPad as a motivational tool. Every quarter I write down 3 things I want to get done. Now I stick them at the bottom of my iPad wallpaper, so I see them every day. I’ll let you know in January how well this worked, but its looking good so far! Have you any ideas for useful wallpaper?