End of year review

1.What did you do in 2013 that you’d never done before? Put all my efforts into one project. 2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? No, pretty much stopped going to the gym in February, but thankfully have been keeping quite well. I’d like to try… Continue reading End of year review

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August 28th, 1963.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of… Continue reading August 28th, 1963.

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This is Water

An excellent commencement speech on compassion and forgetting about self-centered thinking.

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End of year review

(a 6 year old tradition) 1.What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before? Talk to investors. 2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Yep have been going to the gym every week for over a year and adding a new sport. 3. Did… Continue reading End of year review

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Funding the right things

There’s a lot to be said for the amount of money technology projects receive on crowd-funding platforms versus charitable organisations or good causes. The Paralympics are starting in London tomorrow and I found this project on Indiegogo. A young woman looking to get a new prosthetic leg for her athletic career. I hope she can… Continue reading Funding the right things

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Make little, Make often: ideas for the future of manufacturing in the UK

Make little, Make often: ideas for the future of UK manufacturing View more presentations from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino I gave a talk last week at Made North in Liverpool. My point that time around was suggesting a way forward for “industry” in a time where economic growth is a key agenda item for Mr Osbourne. The… Continue reading Make little, Make often: ideas for the future of manufacturing in the UK