CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Yamilette Cano – Founder & Confidence Maker of LOUDER Global This article was originally published here: Yamilette Cano – Founder & Confidence Maker of LOUDER Global After years of being a professional ballet dancer, Yamilette Cano decided to use her creativity to help other people find, and promote, theirs. What’s your story? Hi, I’m Yamilette, an entrepreneur, multilingual speaker, coach, confidence maker, content creator, & […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK SOCIOLOGY Tokyo 2021: An Olympics Without Crowds? The Tokyo 2021 Olympics will be the first Games to take place with no spectators. The sight of sparsely populated stadiums and arenas has, of course, become common during the pandemic – and sports economists have studied the impact this has had on athletic performance. But the Olympics are different. For so many athletes, reaching the […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY SOCIOLOGY The End Of Suffering Most of us would describe ourselves as having a body, a mind and a soul (or spirit), as though these are not the same thing. The soul in particular is understood as being separate, not only from the mind and its thoughts, but from the realm of the physical world, and even physics itself. We […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Kristiyan Popov – Co-founder of Digital Marketing Associates This article was originally published here: Kristiyan Popov – Co-founder of Digital Marketing Associates A risk taker, Kristiyan Popov, has combined ambition with what she has learned from the challenges risk involves and believes she can use that to help others. What’s your story? I have always loved to take risks and live day by […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Laurie Silver – Solopreneur of Third Eye Editing This article was originally published here: Laurie Silver – Solopreneur of Third Eye Editing Laurie Silver has many qualifications but the thing she loves doing most, writing, doesn’t require anything more than passion and imagination. What’s your story? My first college degree was in Advertising Design, my second in Landscape Horticulture and my third was […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PSYCHOLOGY & WELLNESS What To Do When Life Is On Hold I get it. You have COVID ennui. I do, too, but as long as we have our health and our jobs, both 2020 and 2021 deserve nothing but to be met with gratitude. Not everyone is as lucky. The truth is, until last year sent us hiding, we were all running at full tilt with our default lives, scarcely […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS STRATEGY Business Structures Have Forever Changed – There’s No Going Back As more and more countries extend their vaccination campaigns, with the US authorities saying that 99.992% of fully inoculated people can resist Covid, the de-escalation process, the supposed return to normality after an 18-month hiatus, is underway. But what does normality mean? Within a few weeks of the first lockdowns in March 2020, forced to work […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
SCIENCE 10 Interesting Facts About Planet Earth Planet Earth. That shiny blue marble that has fascinated humanity since they first began to walk across its surface. And why shouldn’t it fascinate us? In addition to being our home and the place where life as we know it originated, it remains the only planet we know of where life thrives. And over the […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGY Within A Decade We’ll All Be Driving Electric Cars A BloombergNEF report commissioned by Transport & Environment forecasts 2027 as the year when electric vehicles will start to become cheaper to manufacture than their internal combustion equivalents across all segments, mainly due to a sharp drop in battery prices and the appearance of new models by more manufacturers. Batteries, which have fallen in price by 88% over the past […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY SCIENCE What The Laws Of Nature Tell Us About Free Will Among the greatest mysteries of the universe — dark matter and God, singularities and the beginning of time — there is the question of free will. It is an essential aspect of the human experience, this needing to have control over one’s own destiny and this feeling that all our decisions do matter. Free will […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Kaitlyn Study – Owner & Creative Director of South Street & Co. This article was originally published here: Kaitlyn Study – Owner & Creative Director of South Street & Co. Moving from Dermatology to digital marketing is not everyone’s career move, but it is the one Kaitlyn Study took and now she and her team are helping businesses optimise their marketing strategies. What’s your story? I’m the […] Written by Callum Laing July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How To Improve Your Information Diet New research by the Reuters Institute and Oxford University looks at the effect of tools such as aggregators, search engines and social networks on people’s information diet, concluding that their use tends, in general, to generate more diverse sources than when we simply visit our preferred media pages. A conclusion that, in principle, would challenge Eli Pariser’s well-known theories regarding […] Written by Enrique Dans July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Tokyo 2021: An Olympics Without Crowds? The Tokyo 2021 Olympics will be the first Games to take place with no spectators. The sight of sparsely populated stadiums and arenas has, of course, become common during the pandemic – and sports economists have studied the impact this has had on athletic performance. But the Olympics are different. For so many athletes, reaching the […] Written by The Conversation July 21, 2021July 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Space Tourism: Can It Be More Than ‘Space’ Joyrides For Millionaires? Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic plane on July 12. The event was hailed as the start of space tourism, narrowly beating the planned launch on 20 July by fellow billionaire business magnate Jeff Bezos and his firm Blue Origin. But does the 85km (53 miles), the altitude […] Written by The Conversation July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The End Of Suffering Most of us would describe ourselves as having a body, a mind and a soul (or spirit), as though these are not the same thing. The soul in particular is understood as being separate, not only from the mind and its thoughts, but from the realm of the physical world, and even physics itself. We […] Written by Anthony Fieldman July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
