Insights and ideas

Explore thought-provoking perspectives from my long-running entrepreneurial blog.

The future of data and social networks

Will voice traffic one day peak? Just as gas-guzzlers regularly panic over “peak-oil” theory, there are those that panic that

The most important thing in life

Loyalty. A simple word. And yet one of the most complicated concepts in our world… What is loyalty? It is

The tyranny of mediocrity

Mediocrity is the cousin of relativism. “We’re not the fastest, but we’re not the slowest.” “We don’t have the best

Twitter frees broadcasters

I’m not from the media industry. But I’ve come to learn that, in the jargon of the experts, a broadcaster

Keep your eye on the ball

Did you watch the Proteas snatch defeat from the jaws of victory yesterday? For the umpteenth time, our national cricket

The next bubble?

1 February 2011 The next bubble Winston Churchill once said: “If there is one thing we can learn from history,

If, by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you

A dummy’s guide to interconnect rates

25 April 2010   The regulation of mobile phone operators can be used as a case study of how strong

The Web today

15 December 2010 Nowadays tech is not hardware. Tech is software, and the cutting edge is the Web. PC-based software