Category Archives: politics

Britain Needs Techno Dynamists

Posted on 20/05/2013 by

In an excellent column for CityAM today, Stian Westlake makes the argument that optimists need to run the economy in order to foster economic growth. This is an argument that I have been making for years and in various forms. … Continue reading →

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Risk Taking and Risk Takers

Posted on 22/02/2011 by

Months go by in between posts and still I feel that there is more that can be done to update the design or change the user interface.  That being said, my time has been taken up by other things.  And … Continue reading →

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Various posts

Posted on 17/08/2010 by

I have had a few post over the last few days.  If you are so inclined to reading them, I have written about the amazing number of bans and regulation that San Francisco has here and I have discussed how … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Big Brother Watch

Posted on 11/08/2010 by

I have another guest post up over on Big Brother Watch.  If you find mobile privacy stuff interesting you can read it here.

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Richard and Cass are back

Posted on 10/08/2010 by

The FT reports that a new ‘nudge unit’ has been created inside of Downing Street.  Unsurprisingly, Steve Hilton is a ‘co-chair’.  Steve is the man responsible for, among other things, a lack of user testing on the ‘big society’ concept … Continue reading →

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