Paul Hobcraft

MAY 10, 2020

The majority of my recent work has been in investigating and building a comprehensive understanding of the #energytransition. It is, to say at the very least, complex and challenging, but for me, satisfying and rewarding. Let me briefly explain how I am going about this and why. My research ‘intensity’ (If I can call it that) had to become well structured, and I turned to some of my favorite, perhaps old fashion tools to capture my learning and give me my points of reference.

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Digital Tonto

MAY 10, 2020

The lesson here is that we are all prone to bias. We need to be careful and promote a healthy skepticism, especially with opinions that we are predisposed to agree with. Just as we shouldn’t believe. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Viima

MAY 10, 2020

In the third episode of our new podcast, The Innovation Room , we had a very special guest: John Carter. John is the founder of TCGen , and a true innovation veteran. He's, for example, invented the original Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones and advised companies like Apple and Amazon with their product development and innovation processes. In this in-depth interview, John shares his story and some of the many lessons he's picked up along the way.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 10, 2020

Are we truly alone together? Well, thanks to Spotify’s new feature we can find out as we now have the ability to know if anyone else around the world is listening to the same song as us at the same time. Something that supposedly happens far more often that one might expect. As Fast Company puts it: “With more than 250 million Spotify users around the world, it’s not tough to imagine that two people may be listening to the same song at any given moment.

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Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 10, 2020

Have you been struggling to stay productive? Easily distracted while working from home? Frustrated that your daily routine has been upended? That any semblance of a normal life has escaped, living you alone on an island? If so, I feel your pain and I’m here to offer a solution. A little piece of advice. Get yourself TickTime. A small tabletop gadget with several built in timers of varying duration that lets you work in quick bursts.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 10, 2020

Diet and exercise are obviously very important lifestyle choices that severely impact a person’s long-term health and well-being. And as we find ourselves socially isolated and stuck indoors making good choices and sticking with a workout regime is more important now than ever before. But that may change in the near future. Thanks to a new experimental gene therapy that may prevent obesity and build muscle mass while essentially eliminating the need for diet and exercise.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 10, 2020

It sounds simple enough. Standing six feet apart from another person. But in actuality not everyone is capable of adhering to social distance guidelines. It’s why grocery stores have actually placed stand here markers on the floor and created one way aisles. And its why businesses have closed and shelter in place orders have been enacted. Left to our own devices most people would ignore the risk and just do whatever the hell it is that they wanted to do anyway.

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