Hunome

Hunome is…

A site for you to join to gain insights on humans – who we are, why we are, where we’d like to go next – and share your views: fun, funky, serious, deep, life, foibles… all thoughts on the way we are and live are welcome.
A business developed by a small team [...]

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Transhumanism – Where does it stand? Where will it go?

You can find my point-of-view on transhumanism. It is part of a series of articles on the topic on KedgeForward.

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Hunome launched in private Alpha 1.1.2010

Hunome has launched in Alpha.
I cannot believe it. I have not said anything about the launch on my blog. I guess that is because I’ve communicated it elsewhere.
What is Hunome?
It provides means for creating and enjoying short-cuts to insights about humanity.
Who is it for?
Those who need to understand what makes people tick in their professional, [...]

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What makes humans unique?

If we do not understand ourselves how can we hope to truly be in someone else’s shoes and have perspective? If we do not have perspective, how can we operate in a world of variation, even if ever so slight and seemingly insignificant? We like to display our uniqueness in many ways in amongst our [...]

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Sustained or suspended?

Some time ago I gave a talk in the US, as the event had to do with sustainability and leadership, I spoke about a continuum from the ‘disaster waiting to happen’ or being ‘suspended’ to having a good chance of sustaining an organisation’s existence for a long time.
I have looked inside large and small organisations [...]

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Climate change – humanity is paralysed

Sunspots, man made, sunspots, man made, believe it is ‘true’, believe it is not ‘true’, etc, gosh and this level of discussion helps us how?
For years humanity has been flummoxed by its own lack of ability to – once and for all – figure out what is happening with climate change. It is heating up, [...]

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Emotional and rational future maze

We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come, nor despair of it as quite certain not to come.
Epicurus, 341-270 b.C., Greek philosopher, Letter to Menouceus, The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments (Great [...]

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What a piece of work is a man….in search of truth – again

I have been studying philosophy in the era of Shakespeare. As part of that I watched Kenneth Branagh’s excellent full-length version of Hamlet, set in 1800s, later than the original setting of the play, which was Elizabethan England. In this video clip is a soliloquy from act II scene 2. The same soliloquy in a [...]

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Purpose and value – a company perspective

If you spent some time visiting several Fortune 500 web sites, how many of those do you think would clearly state their purpose and value to humanity? How many would have people in their brand somewhere? How many would talk about the passion they have for making the world a better place and how their [...]

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Sleep, daily rhythms and gaining time

We behave in a particular way and then we say “I am like this….”, when in fact we’ve just created habits, which may be good ones or bad ones, but not impossible to change, if wished. Confession: “I am an evening person”, is nothing but a habit I’ve created for myself, believing my own gospel [...]

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A major milestone – Hunome Alpha preview

Us hunomers had a small gathering yesterday to put a stake in the ground and celebrate a major milestone – we have seen Hunome early phase and it is turning into a beauty
Over the last year and a half, plus much noodling around the vision even before then, the team has grown to [...]

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Consensual self-deception: An essential trouble with humanity

Last Friday at a dinner party chez Catherine and Hugues, Ron, a seasoned business man and a neighbour told us a story, which had its underpinnings in these six points from the book: LEADERSHIP AND SELF-DECEPTION from “THE ARBINGER INSTITUTE”
1) An act contrary to a feeling of what I should do for another person is [...]

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Once I got caught…..@ TED2009

This is my TED2009 story [TED = technology, entertainment and design]. It aims to give you a sense of what it feels like to be there. Some of this may seem like an insider’s story and I apologise for that.

For 3.5 days we watched, heard, tasted [those who got the bread in Long Beach and [...]

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Foresight Identities – a journey of transformation

Just like we are different people to different people Foresight Identities are different approaches for different needs…
I gave a talk on Foresight Identities and my journey through them at the ‘Futures Hot House’ at AMP building in Sydney last week, thank you Janine and thank you audience for the wonderful questions.
The NINE different ‘Foresight Identities’ [...]

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Hunome – new venture

Shift from intrapreneur to entrepreneur – again
Once a change agent always a change agent. I had a good run with that at CSC and now it is time to pull all my paths together into Hunome, a business which has been brewing for a very long time. It combines my experiences and passions in developing [...]

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