Author: Benjamin Ellis

Life – Incomprehensible Without Time

by Benjamin Ellis on July 21, 2014 in Psychology, Thinking • 0 Comments

How do you understand your life? Or, more importantly, do you understand how you understand your life? It is impossible to start to make sense of until we understand the impact of time on it. It is an impact that isn’t always obvious, and that very few are consciously aware of. Here is what three different psychologists have taught me… Read more →

Future Organisations – ResponsiveOrg

by Benjamin Ellis on May 11, 2014 in Work • 2 Comments

This week is definitely the week to get back to blogging. The last week has been a flurry of activity looking at what the future organisation might (and should) be like. Wednesday saw the restart of the Social Business Sessions at Yammer’s UK HQ, and Saturday saw the first ResponsiveOrg unconference, with around 40 sessions on how businesses can respond to the… Read more →

Terrifying Consumers

by Benjamin Ellis on November 15, 2013 in Product Marketing • 0 Comments

I am sure you have seen the Carrie promotional video prank. If you haven’t here you go: terrify yourself. There has been a lot of debate about whether the people in the shop were actors or just bystanders (and that debate also added to the spread of the video). Marketeers are in a continually escalating battle to get our clicks and… Read more →

Does More Data Mean Better Decisions

by Benjamin Ellis on October 22, 2013 in Psychology • 4 Comments

So this post is partly in response to a comment from Roland Harwood asking about 23andMe, but mostly me thinking out loud about data and risks. While this post is in response to the data generated by 23andMe, it is applicable to almost any isolated set of data. 23andMe, if you haven’t heard of it, is a DNA analysis service,… Read more →

Internet of Things

by Benjamin Ellis on August 19, 2013 in homehacking, Internet of Things • 0 Comments

A few very cool open sourced hardware projects in the Internet of Things space this week. The Chrome Web Lab exhibition at the London Science Museum concluded yesterday, but Google have released the plans for a couple of the projects: the Universal Orchestra and Sketchbots. The first, Web Lab Orchestra, allows multiple users to control hardware that plays physical instruments, collaboratively and in real time, using a… Read more →