The latest social media platform to hit the Internet waves is Clubhouse, offering a unique experience in the midst of a world deprived of intimate and authentic conversations. For those who have yet to hear or experience it, the best way to explain it is in the visual below. It’s…

In November 2020, I wrote a piece titled ‘the next decade of Unicorns’ which looked at the increasing number of countries producing unicorns. In just 3 years, the world saw the number of countries producing unicorns move from 10 in 2017 to 19 in 2020. While a large majority of…

The last decade has seen the number of unicorns explode. For those of you unfamiliar with this concept beyond the mythical creature, a Unicorn is a term used in the startup world used to describe a new business that is valued at more than $1 billion and is privately owned…

If you are a student of history or the social sciences, or of human nature itself, you will be familiar with the concept of life cycles and patterns. This is the idea that regardless of where we are on this journey we call life, there is a cycle to it…

History of retirement Retirement is a relatively modern concept that’s only been with us for just over 130 years. Prior to this, the mantra was ‘Work until you die — or until you can’t work anymore’. In 1880, when farming was the dominant source of economic activity, half of Americans…

We have just ticked over a decade since the explosive growth of the Sharing Economy. Most widely known for new business models such as Uber and Airbnb that first emerged in 2008 /2009 at the height of the global financial recession. …

There have been lots of articles written about what you would say to your younger self, your 18 or 21-year-old self. What if we flipped the question by asking what your younger self would say to you today. Youth is a time loaded with big dreams, imagination, and ambition. A…

In life, we meet many people along the way. Many are just fleeting moments that serve little meaning to our life, others are seasonal who eventually run their course leaving little more than good memories, while few, leave life-changing markers that are enough to help us find our way in…

Apart from the significant pain and suffering that COVID-19 has inflicted on millions around the world, it has also resulted in many changes to the way we live. One of the most obvious being our increased use and dependence of the Internet. Overnight many things we did IRL pre-COVID-19 suddenly…