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Author: Dug Campbell
Crosswords
Guilty Animals (Fringe 2021)
Cheese Sandwiches in a Time of Coronavirus
Should More Gigs Be Livestreamed?
The ‘Letters To…’ Project
Social Distancing: Stop Messing Around
Deep Work
Giving Advice Is Easier Than Following It
Be More Hume
Chinese Click Farms
When Your Lunch Also Commutes
Pink Flamingos and the American Dream
Blockchains And Spreadsheets
Friday Quotes
Hiring Giants
Silicon Valley Whistleblowers
Why Philosophy?
Hard Work Means Different Things
World Book Day 2019
Optimism and The Base Rate Fallacy
Excuses
Different Crypto Camps
Sunday Eyeball Rinser
Saturday Snippet
The Power of Unlearning & Confirmation Bias
The Underground (Map) Is Not The Territory
The Library of Mistakes
Advice For Students
Sybil The Fake
Perfectionism
War Talk
Self-lacing Trainers (Bluetooth Dependent…)
The Current State of Podcasts
Nineteenth Century Technology
The Universe (And 9,000 Glaswegians)
Simple and (Less In)secure
Women In Coding
The Mystery of Cicada 3301
A Lost Opportunity
The Romance of Valentine’s Day
Bitcoin Sent Across Borders Using Radio
Technology, Behaviour Control & The Removal of Freedom
David Deutsch and Knowledge
Lucky Entrepreneurs
Seven Human Traits In Successful Society
100 Days In A Row
Freedom: An Alarming Perspective
Malcious DNA Hacking
The Quadriga Stramash
Facebook Hits 15
Why Writing Matters
Learning A Different Language
Tweet of the Day: Phonecalls
The Willingness To Be Wrong
Are There More Brainy People All Of A Sudden?
Phantom Buttons
Tweets of the Day (LinkedIn & Synaesthesia Edition)
Five Big Questions
Venezuela and Bitcoin
Foundations For A Great Career
New Frontiers
Ten Years on Twitter
Google Breaches GDPR (Shock, Horror)
Fighting The Inevitable: Surveillance Capitalism & The Decline of Civilisation
The Power of Myth
Bad Infographics
The (Many) Senses
Linux and the Open Source Software Movement
Leadership Tips
Why You Should Delete Your Social Accounts
Privacy and Emails
The Challenges of Decentralisation
Protecting Your Digital Door
The Importance of Thinking Time
The Madness of Rice (Revisited)
Fake Faces
The Bitcoin Standard
A Beginner’s Mind Beats The Expert
Oumuamua and the Paradigm Shifts
Employee Fitness & Surveillance
If You’re Reading This, You’re WEIRD…
Happy Tenth Birthday Bitcoin
Using Fiction to Simulate Decision-Making
Patreon Censorship: The Story Continues
2018 Wrap-Up
Moore’s Law Is Just A Collective Goal
Good Ideas in 2019
Bitcoin in Venezuela
Sandbox In Your Brain
Become A More Effective Doctor
Should You Go To More Parties?
Lords of our Tiny Skull-Sized Kingdoms
Earthrise, The Most Exciting Christmas Eve In History
Digital Patronage
Dyson Sphere and Kurzgesagt
Drones Close Gatwick
Kahneman And Happiness
10x Focus
Tim May, Cypherpunk & Visionary
Huxley and Orwell
And The DNA Lottery Winner Is…
The Improved Life of Curious Cats
Podcast Interviews
Confidence
The Lost Power of Compound Time
The Madness of Rice
Productivity and Deliverables
How to Define Decentralisation
Friday Quote of The Day
Consumer DNA Testing: Why?
The Pinnacle of Civilisation
Historians Versus Economists
The Value of Podcasts
Darwin Sacked Via Twitter
You Are Your Own Employer
Two Thoughts on Hiring
The History of the Internet
Spaced Repetition
The Inevitable Craziness of Surveillance, AI and Social Credit
The Personal Runway Metric
SAFE Network Hits the Mainstream
Different Twitter Uses
More Opinions, Fewer Facts
Pivot or Head Shot?
Bitcoin Black Friday – But Does It Matter?
Taleb & Naval
Drinking from the Firehose
Surveillance Car Capitalism
Fast Bach
Is Science Getting Harder?
Priorities versus Incentives
Criticism and Progress
Sugar and the Mythical Hyper Kids
Story Telling and Conspiracy Theories
First Man
Why The Internet Needs to Evolve (Again)
I Want To Scan Your Brain
ScotChain 2018
The Southpaw Advantage?
Post-Truth Politics and Parenting
Bitcoin and the Lindy Effect
Running and Listening (Or Thinking?)
Swearing and the Inevitable Decay of Society (Or Not)
Life Is Short (But Let’s Ignore It)
The Tasks & Tools of Procastination
A Few Thoughts from Web3 Summit 2018
When Safety Sucks
The SAFE Network in The Guardian
2017 in Books (Non-Fiction Edition)
Joining The Team At MaidSafe
Tweetstorms
A Trumpless Twitter (and a Twitterless Trump)
The Naivety of Expertise
Picking On Small Birds
Look No Hands!
The Death of Celebrity
Where Do We Go From Here?
Opening Up The Banks
Time flies…
London Blockchain Conference 2015
Reflections on MoneyConf 2015
Bitcoin v The Blockchain?
NASDAQ Meets The Blockchain
This Is A Call
Bitcoin and Transparency in Politics
The Cyber Academy Launches In Edinburgh
Bitcoin: Bigger Than Google?
Sometimes Progress Needs A Little Shove
Dot Everyone and Digital Inclusion
Bitcoin continues to rise in the UK
Whose Security Is Best?
The Encryption Battle Heats Up
The Listening Television
Skyscanner Becomes A $1 Billion Business
Medical Apps and Regulatory Challenges
A Decade Of Blogging
The VC Blogging Elite
Morgan Spurlock and Bitcoin
The Evolution of Spending in the Sharing Economy
Hacking The Car Wash
Sell Your Vision
Creative Currencies Chiasma: An Unmitigated Success!
Respond to the Scottish Identity Database Consultation Today
How The Blockchain Removes Excuses
Spurious Correlations
Fiat Currency Stash Hacked (Again)
Emojis Matter
The Problems of Long-Term Digital Archiving
How Facebook Means The Internet For More People
Open Source Tractors
The Falling Price of Technology
The Cake Is A Lie
Cyberwhatnow?
The Byzantine Generals’ Problem
Why Banks Can’t Innovate
The fight for net neutrality rumbles on
The Increasing Entanglement of Modern Knowledge
Tasks: Do More. Faster. Easier
Rely on things that won’t change in the future
Bitcoin, Accounting and the Blockchain
Coffee and Bitcoin: The Last Few Months
The Evolution of 3D Printing
It’s in the post. Honest.
The Social Challenges of Peer-To-Peer Markets
Replicate (And Destroy Me) Scotty
Bitcoin & Anonymity
Andreas Schools The Canadian Senate
Words From Data
Are You Ready To Be Auto-Corrected?
The Stark Reality: Surveillance or Security
Looking Far Off Into A Sci-Fi Future
Coinbase Races Past Bitcoin Industry Milestone
Bitcoin and the Trust Web
Bitcoin and Charities
Cameron’s Crypto Folly
Cyberwarfare Reporting
Liquifying the Physical World with the Internet of Things
Why The Internet of Things Needs The Blockchain
Engagement v Numbers
A.I. and Summoning The Demon
Drones and Regulation
Jibo And The Social Robotics Revolution
Steel Mill Hacked And Damaged
Why Art Is Just As Important As Science
Postmodern Computing and the Blockchain
Bitcoin: Women Wanted
The Power of Distraction
Fred Wilson On 2014’s Key Themes
Bitcoin: Six Years Old Today
Blipfoto Partners With Polaroid
The Year Ahead
The 2014 End Of Year Soundtrack
The Interview and Film Distribution Models
Passive Consumption
Design Something They Didn’t Know They Needed
Are You Advising Or Simply Restating Facts?
Festive Drones Take Off (When Will Santa Upgrade?)
Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas?
Glenn Greenwald: Why Privacy Matters
Aaron Swartz: The Internet’s Own Boy
Reddit Notes & Rewarding Your Users
The Role Of Experts In Modern Society
The Evolution of MOOC’s
The Dangers Of Public Wifi
The Future Of Bitcoin on CNN
Price Is Not The Key Metric
Satoshi’s Songs: Can Bitcoin Save The Music Industry?
Money Comparison: Gold v Fiat v Bitcoin
Digital Ethics in a Connected World
How Much Does Your Car Know About You?
Trust Me, I’m A (Block Chain) Computer
Size Does Matter: Microsoft Gets Some Coins
AI and The Legal Profession
Easy Access: Mail Order Keys
Create For The Fans, Not For The Mainstream
Bitcoin Recap: Five On A Sunday
The Future Of Digital 2014
Out of Context in Evernote
Never Out Of Signal: The Rise Of Mesh Networks
Global Trends in 2015
Collaborative Consumption
The Creative Currencies Chiasma 2015
We’ve always done it this way
The Genius ISM’s
Factom and Preventing Forgeries in Databases
FoldingCoin And Magic Healing Tokens
The Drones Are Coming
Counterparty and Medici
Success and The PayPal Mafia
To Comment Or Not, That Is The Question
PIN Numbers and Passwords
Farm2050 Collective & The Coming Global Food Shortage
Why We Should Be Supporting Let’s Encrypt
Bitcoin Chat on Sand Hill Road
Wearable Data in Court
The Six Walls of Surveillance
Why Science Fiction Shapes The Future
Net Neutrality and the Battle Ahead
Dunbar’s Magic Number 150
LinkedIn “Not Good For Bad Employees” Shocker
The Forex Rigging Scandal
Tipping Tuesday
UK Call for Information on Digital Currencies
A Fear of Identity Theft
The Future of Work
The Streaming Music Dilemma
Startups, Maslow, Happiness, Unemployment
Billion Dollar Unicorns Outside the Valley
When more money is a bad thing
The Rising Tide of Data Breaches
Medical research and the block chain
Thoughts on Inside Bitcoins London
The First Scottish Bitcoin Conference 2014
Bitcoin Radio/Press Stuff
Thoughts on the Bitcoin 2014 Conference
My TEDx Talk: “Bitcoin: More Than Just Money”
The Mobile Web: Are We Shutting Ourselves In?
Unleashing the Potential of Information
Security, Identity And The Relentless Pursuit Of Data
Edinburgh’s First Bitcoin Meetup
Thoughts on the Regulation of Bitcoin
Three Key Megatrends In Technology (And Society)
Discussing Bitcoin On TV
A Deluge of Opinions On Uber’s Surge Pricing
The Unstoppable Rise Of Bitcoin?
Is Technology Really Destroying Jobs?
Digital Skills That Pay The Bills
Ten Reasons To Startup In Scotland
Robots: Seeking Jobs Or World Domination?
Bitcoin: Is It The Future Of Money?
10 Trends Driving The Future Of Book Publishing
The Profound Shift In Scholarly Publishing and How The Future Looks
Social Media & The Law: Talk at #SMEdin
Zach Braff’s Unjustified Beating On Kickstarter
EIE’13: Sherry Coutu CBE Keynote
EIE’13: Sir Tom Hunter Keynote
How Adaptive Learning Could Change Education Forever
Creativity And The Growth Of The Remix Culture
Why Google Glass Is Only The First Step
Filling In The Gaps With Tim O’Reilly
Welcome To The Internet of Everything
And The Final Scores Are…
The Making And Breaking Of The Creative Industries
How Influential Are You Going To Be?
Global Ambition: 10 Lessons For Entrepreneurs
Scottish Startups: A Great 2012 – But A Better 2013?
Startups Central: TechCube Edinburgh Opens Its Doors
Access to Social Media at Work: Who’s Leading?
How Can Hotels Justify Charging For WiFi?
The Network Effect: Why Contacts Matter in Business and Life
The Six Keys to Social Media Success for Law Firms
Why Senior Lawyers Should Be Learning From Their Trainees
When Networking Events Can Be Bad For Business
Is Social Media Relevant for Lawyers and Accountants?