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‘Why Influencer Marketing is So Effective’ - The Affiliate Hub

‘Will Machines Ever Become Conscious?’ - FirstRand Perspectives

‘The Snow Goose Review’ - TheatreZA

‘Lenny, Andrew, Steve and Me’ - TheatreZA

‘Can Machines Make Ethical Choices’ - FirstRand Perspectives

‘The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on our Work Identity’ - FirstRand Perspectives | BizNews

'Khwezi' - Why a Name Matters - The Daily Maverick

The Color Purple - Why the Show Matters for our Democracy - The Daily Maverick

We get to create the future of work - RMB FOUNDeRY

Life as a half-eaten bowl of food - Wits Vuvuzela Newspaper

Revamping International Africa Real Estate Marketing - Blueprint Effects Blog

The Mobile Generation - Blueprint Effects Blog

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• Art

  • 3 Mar 2024 Sonic Landscapes and Visual Voyages

  • 13 May 2025 The Triumph of Creativity Over Practicality

• Artificial Intelligence

  • 6 Jun 2019 What should Education look like in the midst of Artificial Intelligence?

  • 2 Dec 2019 A Call for AI Commercialisation

  • 21 Sept 2020 Crafting Narratives for Artificial Intelligence

• Books

  • 12 Aug 2012 Understand where it's all played out...

  • 23 Sept 2012 The Hunger Games

  • 5 Nov 2012 The Power of Personal Testimony

  • 25 Feb 2013 Art and Technology - What's the difference?

  • 13 Mar 2013 My Thoughts on 'Anthem' by Ayn Rand

  • 14 Aug 2013 The Audacity of Zero

  • 19 Feb 2014 Inferno, Black Swan, Influence and 1984.

  • 29 Mar 2015 'A Storm of Swords' - George R.R. Martin

  • 11 Apr 2015 Russel Brand's Revolution - Why You Should Pay Attention

  • 9 May 2015 'A Man's Search for Meaning' - Viktor E Frankl

  • 2 Jun 2015 'Candide' - Voltaire

  • 9 Jun 2015 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants - Upgrade your Reading

  • 16 Jun 2015 'The Perfection Point' - John Brenkus

  • 25 Aug 2015 'The Raft' - Fred Strydom

  • 9 May 2016 The Political Playbook Needs to Go

  • 2 Jan 2018 The Course of Love

  • 9 Jan 2018 Happy

  • 3 Feb 2019 Vagabonding

  • 10 Feb 2019 Release the Bats

  • 7 Apr 2019 Superintelligence: Philosophy with a Deadline

  • 27 Dec 2019 The Organized Mind

  • 20 Feb 2020 'The School of Life: An Emotional Education' (Book Review)

  • 31 Mar 2020 3 Lessons From Einstein

  • 1 Jun 2020 Little Souls, Carrying Corpses Around

  • 11 Jun 2020 Instagram Seduction

  • 10 Jul 2020 Why You Should Read Old Books

• Business

  • 4 Mar 2013 The Shanghai Haircut

  • 13 May 2013 Investing in People: Upstart's Revolutionary Business Model

  • 23 Nov 2013 Miley's Marketing Miracle

  • 15 Jan 2014 Are Graduates Paid Too Much?

  • 9 Feb 2014 FlappyBird and NekNominations

  • 26 Sept 2014 Pioneer Nation

  • 31 Jan 2019 Gritty Rural Entrepreneurship

  • 2 Dec 2019 A Call for AI Commercialisation

• Creative Writing

  • 2 May 2021 A Ghost to Become

• Lifelong Learning

  • 2 Aug 2012 Organic Education

  • 21 May 2013 Exam Positivity 101

  • 28 Jan 2014 Learning to Play the Guitar in 4 Weeks.

  • 3 Nov 2014 Working Hard v Working Smart. (Who wins?)

  • 10 Jan 2017 An Ode to Mathematics

  • 1 Aug 2019 Art as Conversation

  • 8 Aug 2019 What can we learn from a Concentration Camp?

  • 9 Sept 2019 Intellectual Dishonesty in Q&A Sessions

  • 9 Apr 2020 Seeking Truth Honestly

  • 13 Oct 2020 28 Lessons from 28 Years

  • 23 Dec 2020 Using Imposter Syndrome as a Driving Force

  • 31 Dec 2021 My 2021 Annual Review

  • 2 Jan 2023 My 2022 Annual Review

  • 13 Oct 2024 32 Lessons from my 32 Years

• Mental Performance

  • 17 Sept 2012 Conditioning our Brains.

  • 19 Mar 2013 The Bias Towards Fairness

  • 2 Apr 2013 Context and Circumstance

  • 29 Apr 2013 Living on the Edge of Chaos

  • 10 Jan 2017 An Ode to Mathematics

  • 16 Jan 2018 Dimming the Spotlight

  • 23 Dec 2020 Using Imposter Syndrome as a Driving Force

• Motivation

  • 16 Oct 2012 The Felix Phenomenon

  • 14 Feb 2013 Holding Onto Your Identity | The Chinese Teahouse

  • 9 Mar 2013 The Subway Face

  • 28 Mar 2013 A Letter to Myself

  • 10 Jun 2013 A Balanced Life is Overrated

  • 13 Jun 2013 Goals and Jails

  • 9 Jul 2013 Shanghai Fireworks

  • 18 Jul 2013 Legacy: What are you going to leave behind?

  • 21 Aug 2013 Be Real.

  • 22 Jan 2014 I Jumped out of a Plane.

  • 28 Mar 2014 Taking Risks in a 'Risk-Adverse' World

  • 21 Apr 2014 Excuses.

  • 26 May 2015 The Art of Purposeful Discomfort

  • 20 Jan 2019 Rock Bottom

  • 5 Aug 2019 Won't You Be My Neighbour?

  • 28 Dec 2019 Do the Next Right Thing

  • 7 Mar 2021 Starling Moments: Why Showing Up Matters

• Music

  • 3 Mar 2024 Sonic Landscapes and Visual Voyages

• Personal Development

  • 2 Dec 2019 Be Useful to the World

  • 29 Dec 2019 Remember My Name

  • 30 Dec 2019 Across Scale, Space and Time

  • 31 Dec 2019 A Requiem for 2019

  • 1 Jan 2020 The Year of the Last Mile

  • 26 Mar 2020 Nostalgia.

  • 13 Oct 2020 28 Lessons from 28 Years

• Philosophy

  • 9 Jan 2014 Why I Will Never Return to the Circus

  • 22 May 2014 What Transgenders can Teach us about Time.

  • 12 Aug 2014 The Voicemail Experiment

  • 23 Jan 2019 Some Brief Thoughts on Suffering

  • 12 Aug 2019 Ethics Dumping

  • 25 Nov 2019 English's Stranglehold

  • 9 Mar 2020 Longtermism

  • 1 Jun 2020 Little Souls, Carrying Corpses Around

  • 27 Jul 2020 Strengthening Your Mental Immune System

• Poetry

  • 23 Oct 2012 He stands on the tar...

  • 17 Oct 2013 Pull Back... Zoom In.

  • 26 Nov 2019 An Ode To Heartbreak

  • 2 Jan 2020 A Spark

• Productivity

  • 1 Nov 2012 The 'Newsfeed' Mentality

  • 17 Feb 2013 To Hoot or Not to Hoot | The Public Announcement Conundrum (Part 1)

  • 21 Feb 2013 To Hoot or Not to Hoot | The Public Announcement Conundrum (Part 2)

  • 17 Apr 2013 Flustered Chopsticks

  • 3 Jun 2013 My First Attempt at Time-Tracking

  • 4 Jun 2014 2 Ways to Improve Your Habits Today

  • 3 Nov 2014 Working Hard v Working Smart. (Who wins?)

  • 25 Apr 2015 I'm tired of being 'busy'.

  • 30 May 2018 6 Days to Air: How Creativity goes Professional

• Psychology

  • 11 Jun 2020 Instagram Seduction

• South Africa

  • 7 Aug 2012 The Pathetic Fallacy Novelty

  • 29 Jul 2013 Empowering SA Entrepreneurs

  • 4 Aug 2014 The Magic of Theatre (Lessons from the National Arts Festival)

  • 18 Aug 2014 The Running Community

  • 26 Sept 2014 Pioneer Nation

  • 3 Jul 2016 Influence - Riding the Tide

  • 31 Jan 2019 Gritty Rural Entrepreneurship

  • 6 Aug 2019 Washing Windows

  • 19 Aug 2019 Technology for Safety

• Technology

  • 28 May 2013 When does news curation become propaganda?

  • 18 Jun 2013 YouTube Reporting

  • 18 Sept 2013 Image Crafting

  • 6 Jan 2015 10 Days Without a Phone -- Why you should take a digital sabbatical.

  • 18 Aug 2015 How To Think Like Elon Musk

  • 12 Aug 2019 Ethics Dumping

  • 19 Aug 2019 Technology for Safety

  • 3 Oct 2019 The 2019 Deep Learning Indaba: A Story in 3 Parts

• Travel

  • 3 Feb 2019 Vagabonding

  • 8 Aug 2019 What can we learn from a Concentration Camp?

  • 3 Jan 2020 22 minutes

• Writing

  • 29 Jul 2012 First and Foremost

  • 27 Nov 2013 Twitter Fiction

  • 30 May 2018 6 Days to Air: How Creativity goes Professional