thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Has the internet made it easier or more difficult to do things? If you ask me, pushing the tools down to the customer has made it worse.  --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Rob Rawson is a qualified medical doctor who also has significant business experience. He founded and built Timedoctor.com in 2011. Before Time Doctor, Rob moved from Australia to the Philippines and built a successful digital advertising agency with a team of over 20 people. His team was initially all working in an office. Still, he decided to get rid of the office, cut the associated costs, and have the ability to hire and work remotely from any region rather than just one location. He built the software to provide transparency and improve productivity in his fully remote team. After initially building the software for his own internal use, he decided to sell it as a SaaS offering.   Rob is the CEO of Time Doctor, an 8-figure SaaS business with over 130 full-time team members. The team works remotely from around the world in 31 different countries!  Rob is also the co-founder of the world’s largest conference about Remote work -  Running Remote. He has co-authored a book about remote and asynchronous work, “Running Remote,” which was released in August 2022. In this revolutionary book, Rob and his co-founder Liam Martin have unearthed the secrets and lessons discovered by remote work pioneering entrepreneurs and founders who’ve harnessed the async mindset to operate their business remotely in the most seamless, hassle-free, and cost-effective manner possible.  Rob now lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two kids. --- Running Remote Book:  https://amzn.to/3AwZEYU https://timedoctor.com https://ideateandexecute.com

APIs are great, except for when they break. Startup Opportunity: solve the complexity in the API space. It's not glamorous, but it's a big problem, perfect unicorn fodder. --- https://ideateandexecute.com

AI will not be flawless. It will make the same mistakes humans make as long as they are the product of humans.  --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Every study says that remote work is better for everyone, then why are employers forcing people back to the office? It is better for humans, the planet, and the employer. What are we missing: chance serendipitous encounters. Are you telling me that we can't figure those out?

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If there are people, processes, or tools in the way of you making change within an organization, then someone likes it just like that.

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Gary F. Bengier is a writer, philosopher, and technologist.

After a career in Silicon Valley, Gary pursued passion projects, studying astrophysics and philosophy. He’s spent the last two decades thinking about how to live a balanced, meaningful life in a rapidly evolving technological world. This self-reflective journey infuses his novel with insights about our future and the challenges we will face in finding purpose.

Before turning to write speculative fiction, Gary worked in a variety of Silicon Valley tech companies. He was eBay’s Chief Financial Officer and led the company’s initial and secondary public offerings. Gary has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MA in philosophy from San Francisco State University. He has two children with Cynthia, his wife of forty-five years. When not traveling the world, he raises bees and makes a nice Cabernet at the family’s Napa vineyard. He and his family live in San Francisco.

https://garyfbengier.com/

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Does ESG look at the past while innovation looks at the future? Why can't we look at helping all humans and the planet flourish? We need to look to the ideal future and work backward to see what we need to do next.  

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Serendipity is essential for creativity and success, both in business and life. You can actually increase your chances of serendipity by remaining open to opportunities. 

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Mascha is a multifaceted creative director with over sixteen years of experience in the creative field and the past seven in software. She's a certified digital marketer who develops and executes authentic visual stories that bring brands to life across different organic and paid channels.   She is hands-on at every project step and works closely with her trusted network of established photographers, designers, editors, and engineers for small or large-scale projects. She guides every project from concept thru production, on set direction to the final post-production, and delivers them on time and on brand. She worked on ad campaigns and editorials, produced fashion runway shows, designed and built e-commerce stores, and can offer a holistic approach to your project. She worked on projects with many fashion and beauty brands, retailers, and publications such as Harper Bazaar, Vogue, Theory, Barneys, Zegna, Nike, InStyle, Tresemme, and Rimmel, to name a few.   Mascha invested in, designed, and developed networking and event software HATCH and gained a US utility patent. Regarding technology, she is passionate about healthy user experiences that serve and benefit users with minimal interruption to their lives and always follows the principles of the Humane Technology Institute.  https://www.hatch.vision https://ideateandexecute.com