Category: Internet of things

Let’s get together and call ourselves an institute: or how people coming together isn’t enough. I’m in the country side in Slovakia today. I took my 15th flight (this year) to get here. I will leave on Sunday. And there is no guarantee that I will ever see the people I will have met here again.… Continue reading Let’s get together and call ourselves an institute: or how people coming together isn’t enough.

How to work with Londoners: a guide for foreigners. So we’re a year away from Brexit and although I fear many will leave, many others (read: Americans) will come here in search of a friendlier healthcare system and English-speaking opportunities. Here is a guide to how to work with Londoners to prepare you before you… Continue reading How to work with Londoners: a guide for foreigners.

Against the grain I don’t usually use hyperbole, especially not about anything American, but over a week ago I attended what is probably the best event I’ve ever been to. The setting was straight out of an Eagles album: the Mojave desert, a 2h drive from Los Angeles (thanks to Ben Hammersley for driving me there).… Continue reading Against the grain

A statement (I’m attending the Salzburg Global Seminar which was themed: ‘Arts, Technology and Making Sense of the Future’ and apparently former alumni have produced a ‘statement’ in the past. That doesn’t seem to be happening this time around so I thought I’d give it a go. Much of this relates to the wicked problem… Continue reading A statement

Being a British Citizen Yesterday, along with 20 other people I was handed a Certificate of Naturalisation with a welcome letter from Amber Rudd and details on how to get a passport, all in an envelope with the heading ‘Being a British Citizen’. It was a strange moment, me, smiling, holding the hand of the Mayor… Continue reading Being a British Citizen

What does it take to make better connected products? This time last year, Usman Haque and I were reminded that it had been almost five years since our ‘Open Internet of Things Definition’ event at Google Campus. Five years is both a long time and not a long time, but we thought it would be… Continue reading What does it take to make better connected products?

Sometimes it’s important to litter the internet with pointless lists of things you like. Because I’m getting a little tired of Instagram & ‘photo-sharing’ websites. They feel very gamified without being personal and there’s no links to anything outside them. Noone knows how to use the internet anymore (except for thingsmagazine.net which is awesome) So… Continue reading Royal Academy favorites

The tech that does or doesn’t matter: thoughts after #cph150 A couple of weeks ago, I was flown in to Copenhagen where I spent 3 days talking to strangers and a handful of friends about the future of the internet. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal who I’d only met briefly a couple of times over the last 10 years… Continue reading The tech that does or doesn’t matter: thoughts after #cph150

Alone across Japan (1) Utsukushigahara sculpture park on the outskirts of Matsumoto I’ve always been interested in Japan, but a little dissapointed I hadn’t been able to go there for work. I made peace with that fact and went around Europe, Australasia and North America for work and sometimes pleasure. In 2014, my then boyfriend suggested… Continue reading Alone across Japan (1)