Have you used a teleprompter for teaching online classes? For eye-contact and scripting? Do you recommend it? Elgato Prompter has got me interested in investing in one

Indonesians: The term 'indigenous' requires one to be politically marginalised. Does that mean indigenous wisdom does not extend to traditional pre-christian/islam Javanese, Batak, dll beliefs? Or perhaps we argue that the beliefs are marginalised and thus it is indigenous?

Election season is when immigrants around the world get to be human piñatas

"The implications for democracy may be existential." Thomas Hale of Blavatnik School of Government and Catarina Tully of School Of International Futures (SOIF) write about the recent Liaison Committee report that found government struggles to tackle problems lasting more than one electoral cycle kcl.ac.uk/news/politicia…

So much of decolonial discourse undermines its own credibility by not just ignoring USSR’s colonial crimes but parroting Kremlin’s talking points of Russia (even today!) being some kind of anti-imperial entity. RU in 2024 = largest surviving empire at 11% of Earth’s landmass

It's 2024 and yet I just lost 3 hours of work due to a corrupted Microsoft Word file. Google Docs > Microsoft Word

Take some time to learn about what is happening in Venezuela & how technology is being used, rather than the propaganda spouted by genocidal US organizations under the guise of "anti-imperialism." Solidarity with all our friends and colleagues there. accessnow.org/press-release/…

FYI - I'll be in Bangkok Tuesday-Friday, and sharing about climate foresight and agrifood systems, plus future of governance. And then off to Jakarta after that for some Indonesian and ASEAN- related foresight events on food security and future of science and technology.

I’m at a conference today. The organisers just told me that I can’t bring my daughter to the networking session or the dinner tonight. I couldn’t get a babysitter. This is one of those times, as a single parent, that you really miss out. It felt like a gut punch.

In Dubai later this month? Siddhi Ashar and Estefania Simon-Sasyk will be hosting an experiential futures experience on climate and migration using the Transform methodology. If you'll be at the Dubai Futures Forum, you can sign-up here: lnkd.in/dTpSaqE5

Literally every company that I work that uses Microsoft Teams is less efficient because of it.

I created a webpage that runs, not on a giant data center, but on my 2019 Redmi Note. Now, imagine if we could own much more of our digital lives? Consider this webpage a small, symbolic start: website-on-android-phone.thekancil.org/this-webpage-i…

Hiya! Who is around in Chiang Mai next week? 19 Jan to 23 Jan. I'm there for climate resilience agri-food systems event. Give me a shout.

“It was an accident!! He’s autistic!!”

Last week, I had a delightful chance to speak at the ASEAN Climate Resilience Network ASEAN-CRN and support the master class workshop, which brought together governments and organisations from all over SEA to address agrifood systems and climate resilience.

If we imagine a perfectly efficient human being doing 12 hours of high production work per day, with four hours for food and lifestyle tasks… Do we imagine they would ever have a single new idea? Creative insight does not come for hard work. It comes from making mental space.

Schools (& pretty much all other indoors spaces) should have installed air filtration systems on year 1 of the COVID pandemic. The longer we delay these safety measures the bigger the cumulative damage +++ the worse preparedness for the inevitable next pandemic

Wow, what a stressful week of work. Time to relax by holding a phone beaming endless streams of horrific international news inches from my head