Everyone’s got a pet theory as to the cause of the credit crunch, Mine’s ‘groupthink’. What do you think about that?! I even name drop Warren Buffett in my theory. Plus a reference to ‘black swan theory’ for good measure;-)
Stuart Glendinning Hall
Coincidences —
Category Archives: Coincidences
Layoffs in the Social Media Space
Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research in Social Computing charts the start of the US-based social media layoffs. By no coincidence it’s beginning in the UK too, so I hear. Then again, anecdotally speaking, it’s not all doom and gloom either. My tech elder brother Andrew is flying down to London soon to raise venture [...]
IBM to launch social networking center
I see IBM are working with Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters’ healthcare arm on a new web 2.0 software center in the US. Nice, I used to work with Thomson Reuters’ healthcare arm in the UK (with the affable Jeremy Snelling) and talked with them on improving their data feed for Medicexchange.com. Now I’m working [...]
At least I’m right about one thing - PBR
I like coincidences, so it was great fun to see the recent Fortune magazine article ‘America’s Hottest Investor’ focus on a true contrarian, mutual fund manager Ken Heebner, who also just happens to be at the top of his investment game. And who just happens to confirm my liking for Petrobas (PBR): “Petrobas could become the biggest stock in the world,” he says..
The two productions of knowledge paper
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Winning & predicting
Spotted the nice story about the lottery winner today, who had both dreamed about a win, and his daughter had been told by a mystery woman that she would win the lottery. That got me thinking for fun about the science of winning and predicting, and the ability of people in this respect, which I’ve [...]
New York was once in Leicestershire hands
While my uncle is reportedly the last surviving member of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment I was reminded of the history of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment today with a visit to the Newake Houses Museum. Little did I know that in 1776 the forerunner to the regiment, the 17th Regiment of Foot, helped capture New York [...]
Blue Monday
There was a sense of chaos in Monday, quite apart from the banks ‘Black Monday’ as City AM titled it. The fire engines from Shoreditch were out in Copthall Avenue. And the C2C trains were severley delayed going out of Fenchurch Street.
Gary Rhodes in John Lewis!
Cool, spotted Gary Rhodes the famous chef in John Lewis. Nice coincidence (wikipedia tells me so it must be right) that he started his career at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel, where we are off for Xmas.Looks like he has a newish recent in W1 — Rhodes W1 which would be worth checking out.
Run Fatboy Run
OK, so was it a cute coincidence to see the two main protagonists in ‘Run Fatboy Run‘ walk down Lafone Street tonight?
PS: My quick PC designs for the ‘HP & MTV Global Design Competition. The Computer is Personal Again’: