We’re travelling next year, with nothing but a backpack of essentials and a bank card to make it all happen. We’ve found ourselves offloading everything that does not server to add either to our travels – there’s very little that will fit into a backpack that can only weigh 15% of your body weight (that’s…
Author Archives: Zane Dickens
Outside of the Box: Money Like You Never Knew
Bill Gates didn’t finish college. Neither did Steve Jobs. No one knew you could have such a thing as television until Philo Farnsworth came up with the idea (in 1927, at the age of 21). They all created things that, initially at first, involved boxes (computers, TVs – get it?). But by far, they were…
Less is more: How less stuff can actually make you happier
ABOUT THIS TALK Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life. Graham Hill Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com; he travels the world to tell the story…
3 Steps to Finding your Passion, and Living your Real Life.
Three simple steps to finding your passion, this path has worked for me, and hopefully it will work for you.
90 Days to a Zero Hour Work Week
Sometime in early Janaury 2012, I will be jetting off to South America for at least 6 months – one way tickets and all.
Violent Worker Strikes, is akin to Terrorism
Protesting for the benefit of your interest group – that’s democratic. It’s your right, and in some cases it’s your duty. When those protesting groups turn disruptive, violent and destructive – that is not democratic, that’s terrorism. When a group of people decide to act in such a way as to threaten inconvenience, to threaten…
Bye bye, dumb phone
I’ve finally taken the plunge and left my previously blissful and ignorant world behind me. Gone are the sunny days of calm, brazenly whiled away beeping and buzzing free. I’ve gone and gotten myself a smart phone. The make is immaterial, I’m more concerned with the impending profound change that is going to infiltrate my…
Help the SA Robotics Industry
The development and growth of an industry is often related to the interest of youth, as they become the future leaders and experts within that field. Currently we have a situation where some interested youth, from difficult backgrounds, have the opportunity to learn more, interact and compete with other interested youth in this field at…
I’m a digital boy with an analogue craving
I love writing, its something I’ve enjoyed since I was young. I don’t do enough of it, and certainly not consistently. But I am finding lately its not for lack of wanting or lack of motivation, rather its a lack of tactile real world creative feedback. Sidebar: I recently bought a door. Painted it with…
Start-up Post-mortem: Contrastream
Learning from ones mistakes is simple and truly evolutionary skill. Its required to move forward, not doing it will cost you time, money and eventually success. I found this post while on a tangent, and thought it both so personal and also so enlightening for a project I am slowly building up the momentum needed…
