Showing all results tagged "Alistair Duff"
How much would you pay to be James Bond?
On the 9th of September 2015, an auction house in Guernsey had a peculiar item up for bid; amongst arts and antiques, there was a small plate with three digits on it.
08.2024 | Alistair Duff
How Gaming Conquered the World
For many, the 70s marked the beginnings of the true modern phenomenon that is broadcast television. In 1976 South Africans gathered around these boxy units with fiddly buttons and bunny ear aerials waiting to be amazed, and they would not be disappointed.
08.2023 | Alistair Duff
Stoicism as a business philosophy
Have you read? We have all lived through it. The locations vary, maybe in a boardroom, a cocktail party, a business pitch, even just drinks with colleagues at work.
07.2022 | Alistair Duff
Liespotting series: Even more lies Part 3
In the modern era, there has been the propensity to demonise lying and to judge those caught in the act of deceit. From business leaders like Madoff to truly global leaders like Clinton
04.2022 | Alistair Duff
Unconventional laws and where to find them
As many of us marvel at the coming of the digital age, consider just how much has changed over the course of a single lifetime, even half a lifetime. We can be left feeling overwhelmed.
03.2022 | Alistair Duff
Have you ever felt like a fraud?
While much has been written about the mindset of very successful people, from their strategies and beliefs to their general outlook, surprisingly little has been said about a very real drawback many will face during their careers.
02.2022 | Alistair Duff
Can IQ determine your quality of life
In a previous article the ubiquitous presence of online IQ testing was both noted and questioned. The obvious conclusions were that the validity of any findings are likely to be less than entirely accurate
04.2021 | Alistair Duff
The man who created a universe
I suppose many tributes begin with some background information on their early lives, their ancestry, possibly even make reference to the fact that they had a different name at birth. To be honest all of these things seem far too grounded in our universe.
02.2021 | Alistair Duff
Liespotting series:
A beginner’s guide to becoming a human lie
detecting machine
In a previous article we discussed the emergence of the study of lies. We discussed the heavy lifting scientific work done by Ekman and Matsumoto and the amazing contributions that they have made to our understanding of this science.
02.2021 | Alistair Duff
Did Hollywood become a cash cow business without anyone noticing?
No industry has been more involved in shaping trends and informing the masses; nor has any industry been the topic of near constant conversation around the water cooler more than Hollywood.
10.2020 | Alistair Duff
Liespotting Series: Decoding the language of lies
Paul Ekman was named one Time Magazine’s Top 100 most influential people in May 2009.
06.2020 | Alistair Duff
Can we trust the public with decisions?
Any survey worth its salt will clearly illustrate the current mindset of people worldwide.
05.2020 | Alistair Duff
Science fiction becomes science fact
First the dreamers, then the engineers … how much of the technology in our lives today do we owe to stories of an imagined future?
12.2018 | Alistair Duff