Seth Godin’s post earlier today about the dangers behind aspirations to ‘overnight success’ on the web really struck a chord. In the bad old days, it used to be about going to a VC, asking for a pile of money and promising to make everyone rich in under 12 months. Now it seems to be […]
Solving the work-life balance in Palm City, Tripoli
I’ve just returned from a whistle-stop 48 hours in Tripoli, Libya. Not your average tourist destination, granted, and only mad dogs and Englishwomen would venture in late July to a country that’s 90 per cent desert. But, I had a mission: to find out what living in Libya was like for expats. My main aim […]
Working home
With the exception of a 15-month break, I have worked from home for the past 8 years. It may not be the norm in Malta, but actually it’s how many people work worldwide. Whether it’s people fed up with commuting, professionals working for multinationals to minimise office overheads or women juggling working from home with […]
Facebook Chatter
I was curious about the surge in uptake of Facebook in Malta – which as a small island, might point towards people being less inclined to use social networks than others living in big cities. So I asked some Facebook friends to talk about Facebook. I spread the mix, to make sure there was nothing […]
Why Smart City will work
A post on the BBC’s website yesterday was aptly titled ‘Malta woos technology wanderers’. I was once told by a consultant to the mobile industry that what Malta needs for the 21st century is the Princess Grace factor. Someone who understands the potential of the island, brings some glamour, invests some money and puts it […]
Getting organised to get things done
I’m trying to get organised, to get more out of my day without having to resort to three hours’ sleep, as one of my partners does. There’s a lot of material about time management and plenty of sensible advice on Web Worker. David Allen even coined his own phrase for getting things done. I’m suggesting the […]
The Stelios Soundbites
London in the sunshine, 230 exhibitors, 160 seminars and 20,000 people with some aspiration to starting up a business. I dropped into Business Startup 2007 at ExCel with no particular agenda other than to listen into conversations. Real ones, as opposed to the online ones we all tune into. In the brash, cattle market atmosphere […]
Why Wilfing is good for you
The recent survey commissioned by Britain’s YouGov for moneysupermarkets.com about wilfing was widely reported and threw a lot of people into soul-searching about what appears to be a national pastime. More than two-thirds of the 33.7 million internet users in the UK admit to at least the occasional “wilf” while browsing the internet. Thousands of valuable […]
The Cringe Factor
Things are a bit chaotic. I have gone from managing a team to managing myself and there has not been much time for the transition. Muovo, the new startup, is at drawing board stage (more on that some other time). Whatever it is.. it’s that time of the year, when things change overnight (in Malta, […]
Reinventing yourself
Isn’t it strange? Sometimes you are thinking of something, then your eye drifts over the NetVibes feeds and a post leaps up to reinforce what was on your mind just before your eyes landed on the text. Or else you purposely visit one of your regular sources, and find that Hugh MacLeod has again posted something […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- Next Page »