Why I Don’t Want Plastic Bottled Water in My Hotel Room: Changes a Hotel Can Make to Be More Sustainable
As a frequent traveller, one of my pet peeves is the ubiquitous plastic bottled water provided in hotel rooms. While the gesture is appreciated and sometimes the need for bottled water is necessary, the environmental impact is significant. In an age where sustainability should be at the forefront of our minds, it’s time for hotels […]
Troubles at Work? How to recognise gaslighting.
In a business, employees often work closely with directors, managers and colleagues, creating a tight-knit, family-like atmosphere. While this closeness can foster collaboration and loyalty, it can also mask toxic behaviours, including gaslighting. Gaslighting is a subtle form of psychological manipulation where someone makes you doubt your own perceptions, memories, or experiences. When this happens […]
Push UX 2023: Key Takeaways
The Push UX Conference 2023, held from 19-20 October in Munich, Germany, was an engaging event packed with insightful talks, hands-on workshops, and breakout sessions. It brought together design professionals, product-minded innovators, and creative technologists.
What I Learned Attending the Online MBA Essentials Course with the London School of Economics (LSE)
Attending the Online MBA Essentials course with the London School of Economics (LSE) was a transformative experience. Here’s what I learned:
How to Improve Carbon Offsetting for the Travel and Tourism Industry
As part of my Msc I started to look at big problems, technology could solve – Travel and Sustainability. The travel and tourism industry has been under increasing scrutiny for its carbon footprint, particularly with aviation being a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. As the world grapples with climate change, improving carbon offsetting mechanisms […]
Takeaways from WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2022
My takeaways from WeAreDevelopers AI development helpers GitHub announced copilot, a plug-in to your IDE which will predict and write code for you. They predict this could save a developer unto 40% on common code problems, and in the next 5 years could effectively write 80%. The other speakers didn’t really align with this but […]
How to get an urgent uk passport appointment
At present UK passports are taking longer than normal to process, my daughters recent passport renewal (child) took approx 7 weeks (3 weeks shorter than the 10-week current estimate). Due to an upcoming business trip to India (and the fact that India has temporarily suspended e-visas for uk citizens), I find myself needing to apply […]
When the worlds most popular shopping platform fails
As of this morning (21 June 07:00 or earlier) Shopify is returning a nginx error on all shops – as many companies rely on Shopify to run their business, it will have significant impact.
To infinity and beyond
I visited Singapore in 2018, and visited the ArtScience museum. Within the museum there is a permanent exhibit by teamLab which blew my mind. teamLab creates digital borderless art, one of the installations had a path through a mirrored room, creating the illusion of moving through space.
Abba voyage : smart and very entertaining for a computer generated concert!
I recently attended abba’s voyage concert which I have to admit was amazing, I had a great time. ABBA developed a new digital show hosted in London in a new purpose built movable arena, designed and built for the experience.
48h in Berlin (including travels with my father!)
I was attending a conference in Berlin, I had the pleasure of sharing my stay with my father. We flew from London Gatwick to the new Berlin Brandenburg airport. Upon arriving and getting through passport control, we bought an ABC train ticket and took the FEX train from Berlin Brandenburg to Berlin Central Station, and […]
Concorde
Concorde is one of the most elegant planes ever built. An engineering masterpiece which unfortunately due to consumer confidence and maintainability led to its premature end of service. Concorde was an anglo-french cooperation to build a supersonic aircraft, the only super sonic aircraft that made it into mainstream production. Concorde on Wikipedia Despite never flying […]