I would appreciate your help

Instead of #mindcandy, my October 2024 newsletter

Greetings from a less sunny Spain (storm Kirk is on its way). I hope you are well? I would really appreciate your help with a few things and would appreciate your insights and expertise.

Craft accelerator

Starting with the Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) and Trinity College Dublin accelerator. Notebooks, copper lamps, 3D art maps (and more), high-end knitwear, and sensory-friendly clothing. All are looking to expand abroad, and if you have any contacts or suggestions, I would be much obliged. Here are their websites:

• https://www.outcrop.ie
• https://www.badlymadebooks.com
• https://www.kopperkreation.com
• https://urbanaran.com
• https://www.sullyandjuno.ie

Connected24

I am speaking at Connected24 in Astana, Kazakhstan. Dovetails with a climate accelerator I run for Climate Action Initiative Central Asia. The topic of my speech is the future of education, with a focus on edtech. At the moment, the talk is a mix of Ken Robinson, "Our next reality" (new), "Metaskills", "The shallows", "Reality is broken", "Robot proof", "To be a machine", "A world without work" and "The singularity is nearer". Happy to share the PowerPoint. I am looking for examples of cool edtech.

Openincubator

I am developing content for https://www.openincubator.ie. The structure is:

1. You as an entrepreneur (or intrapreneur).
2. Opportunity spotting
3. Idea development
4. Strategy
5. Execution
6. Pitching

We have no intention of reinventing the wheel, and we are looking for website links, articles, blogs, sources, books, etc, which we can incorporate so that students get a rich gambit of content to help them develop their idea or their career (innovation, intrapreneurship). All suggestion are very welcome.

Busy

Apart from the above, I am working with the Cohesive Group (Optimising the future of infrastructure) on their content strategy, will be speaking at Silicon Mountains International Tech Summit in Yerevan, Armenia, in November about AI, working with a few #bookin8days clients, developing a policy innovation accelerator (the issue is regulation and no technology), and still working on my book about books about AI (launch postponed).

Book blogs

Three interesting books this month:

• "Pattern breakers" (Better ideas are not enough).
• "The power of instincts" (Marketing is about creating physical mindshare in the brain).
• "Our next reality" (Immerse reality, from clicking to behaving).

Have a great day.

Ron

PS Had an interesting conversation with John Patrick Shaw of Carelon Global Solutions. Titled "Think Limitless Conversations Innovation and Future Trends". You can watch it here.