At the start of 2023, nobody outside those sitting deep in AI saw it coming – the “overnight success” of generative AI. Predictions from not so long ago as January, seem missed. Things have been progressing much faster than most people anticipated. Including AI leaders such as Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee and their predictions …
I have a friend who blames everything on luck, or lack thereof. Despite being extremely successful at work, he has this fixed mindset that prevents him from creating chances to meet a partner he desires. Am I naive thinking that we have a power over our own destiny and that you can attract luck? …
In the last couple of days I’ve become mildly obsessed by Alex Cooper’s personality and her Call Her Daddy podcast. I stumbled upon her on Steven Barnett’s The Diary of a CEO episode, with her as a guest. Turns out, she has created the most successful female-run podcast, and at some point, she was No.1, …
Have you heard about the ant mill phenomenon? It was observed in army ants, an aggressive predatory foraging groups, known as “raids”, constantly walking around an object with no fixed home base. When a group separates and wants to get back to the pack, the vanguard might follow the smell of the rearguard making them go …
A few days ago a friend of mine made me discover a profession I never knew it existed – a knocker-upper. A knocker upper was a person waking people up to work by hitting peas on their windows. Due to a huge demand during the Industrial Revolution when workers were needed in huge factories for …
Today’s #hankkaLessons post will be a bit different from my usual entrepreneurship-focused ones, but I just read Pregnant then Screwed founder – Joeli Brearley‘s stats on UK’s motherhood status and I felt like more people need to be aware of what a sucker situation many women in the UK find themselves in. “THREE QUARTERS of mothers who use childcare say …
A lot has happened since my last post last month. I wasn’t really able to keep up with my weekly #hankkaLessons posts, but I’ve learned not to beat myself up about it, just restart whenever I can. So here I am.I’ve been in Japan attending the 500 Global programme, helping us and 13 other international …
…on example of our UK-based company Untrite exploring the Japanese market. As we’re quickly approaching 500 Global x Aichi Accelerator Demo Day here in Nagoya (invite link in the comments), we’re preparing our pitches and angles for panel discussion. We’re being trained by brilliant mentors and seasoned serial entrepreneurs who gives us glimpse into market preferences to better position …
Would you want to see yourself in a Spiderman suit without actually squeezing into one? Or maybe you’d like to morph your favourite celebrity or a businessman with a comic book character? Or going a bit darker, Tim Burton’s style on your basset hound dog? What about getting some cute looking ideas for that book you …