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How we can avoid going broke
“In any case, the days of borrowing much more than can be paid back to support excess consumption, by unproductive people, are coming to...
hbsingh
11 minutes ago4 min read


The 5 Powers of a storyteller
“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.” - William Butler Yeats, Irish poet Storytellers command power. A...
hbsingh
Jun 276 min read


Vision - the story of tomorrow
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but...
hbsingh
Jun 164 min read


Humour - spice for stories
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” — George Bernard Shaw Making people laugh is not...
hbsingh
Jun 65 min read


Stories that lift us
“Stories are the communal currency of humanity.” – Tahir Shah Stories can lift us Welcome to part five of the storytelling series, with...
hbsingh
May 314 min read


Data-driven storytelling
"The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight." – Carly Fiorina Data is the start of the story not the story...
hbsingh
May 235 min read


The power of narratives
“The narrative is the set of assumptions the press believes in, possibly without even knowing that it believes in them". - from Stephen...
hbsingh
May 164 min read


Stories simplify ideas
“ After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world .” -- Philip Pullman A famous and...
hbsingh
May 95 min read


Learn how to tell stories
“Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.” — Yuval Noah Harari Is the...
hbsingh
May 32 min read


Assumption Sages
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Unknown (often attributed to...
hbsingh
Apr 254 min read


Tech trade-offs
'It was the best of times; it was the worst of times' - Charles Dickens I hesitated before writing this. Who am I to generalise, to...
hbsingh
Apr 144 min read


Luxury beliefs
“People care a great deal more about appearance and reputation than about reality.” - Jonathan Haidt , The Righteous Mind Are beliefs the...
hbsingh
Mar 174 min read


Death by process
“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.” - Albert Einstein Where to go next? It feels in the day that Amazon can get a product to...
hbsingh
Mar 94 min read


The Blame Game
Blaming others is a common response to not feeling happy Too good to be true usually means too good to be true." – Richard Branson We...
hbsingh
Mar 25 min read


Book: Rockefeller Letters
This is the book cover This week, I have not been able to spend as much time writing as I would have liked to, and that is largely...
hbsingh
Feb 234 min read


Laws are tools not truths
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - Robert Kennedy The...
hbsingh
Feb 164 min read


80/20 rule and life decisions
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee Outsize outputs come from a small group in inputs. If...
hbsingh
Feb 73 min read


2025 Focus and 2024 Review
"Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore" - James Clear What to focus on this year? Dear readers thank you for joining me in this...
hbsingh
Jan 313 min read


Free speech - real talk
It's time to have a grown up conversation around free speech... What's the real story of free speech today? Free speech was back in the...
hbsingh
Jan 185 min read


2024 - Winners and Losers
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday's logic." - Peter Drucker If someone had...
hbsingh
Dec 23, 20244 min read


Trust - why we need it
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." – Frank Crane We need to talk about...
hbsingh
Dec 6, 20246 min read


The Risk of Excessive Caution
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." – Lao Tzu My biology teacher used to joke, "A pessimist is a man...
hbsingh
Nov 27, 20243 min read


Survive bs everywhere
Bs is everywhere. We know what it is when we see it, but how do we define it, spot it and avoid it? Today's blogs takes the smelly tour...
hbsingh
Nov 22, 20245 min read


Did the policy work?
"The plural of anecdote is misinformation" - Dr. Jonathan Stea Did a policy work? Voters are in the mood for radical policies. Radical...
hbsingh
Nov 15, 20243 min read
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