Randomness vs Leadership
A book that has been on my mind a lot recently is Tim Harford’s Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure. Tim Harford is a great story-teller and he makes his case Gladwell-style by mixing…
Sympathy for the Tinkerer
Tinkering gets a bad rap and I am making it my personal mission to rehabilitate the term. I keep an eye out for articles about tinkering and it is dismaying to see tinkerers getting the…
Chiclete Com Banana
On Wednesday this week I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of hours chatting with Gilberto Gil. I am still pinching myself. When I was 17, I was an exchange student for a year…
What is Social Entrepreneurship – Part II
The opening plenary of the Skoll World Forum last night was fascinating. Brilliant because it opened with a set by Baaba Maal and insightful because of a debate among leading members of the international microfinance…
What is a Social Entrepreneur?
This week I’m attending the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Thanks to their kind invitation, I’ll be blogging this week about my experiences here. Having recently left my fellowship at the Shuttleworth Foundation and…