In March 2016, world champion Lee Sedol pitted his skills in the game of Go against the AlphaGo algorithm developed by DeepMind in a series of five matches. Sedol famously lost, however something quite ground breaking happened in the 37th move of the second game.
Ever had to threaten to throw someone off a cliff, figuratively speaking?
When Boeing was developing the 747 (more popularly known as the Jumbo Jet) back in the mid 1960’s, the technological problems they faced nearly sank the company.
What do you do when you have REALLY messed up your life?
This is quite an interesting question upon which to muse.
Why you should share your goals with friends
What do actors Robert Englund and Mark Hamill have in common?
Martin Luther King didn’t say “I have a problem”…
Whilst reflecting upon a client dilemma that they deemed impossible to solve, I recalled the above statement from something I had recently read. Despite all of the challenges that Dr King could have spoken about in his seminal address in Washington in 1963, he chose to focus on the outcome (“I have a dream…”) with historic implications.
Are you wasting your time?
You had 86,400 seconds today, what did you achieve with them?
Do you leave everything “on the track”?
Spare a thought for Laura Muir the Scottish athlete who ran the 1500m in London last weekend. Having led for a significant proportion of the race, she was beaten into fourth place by South African Caster Semenya.
Are you clear about how to succeed?
Those of you who have been following my posts for a while will recognise the issues of “busyness” that I often mention. This is where we have never ending streams of email, calls, instant messages…
Picasso: to succeed you have to do
I was recently in the Museo Pablo Picasso in Malaga. For those of you who don’t know, Picasso was from Malaga and the Picasso Foundation set up the museum as he had always wanted a permanent exhibition of his work in his ‘home’ city.
Are you in control of your life, or is your life in control of you?
At the end of the day, do you ever feel that you “did a lot of things”, but that you actually made no progress?