In 2014 I bought my first Bitcoin from the convincing by a friend in the Las Vegas airport. I didn’t do much with crypto until about 10 months ago, when NFTs (non-fungible tokens) hit my radar. I decided to look into them more. The more I looked, the deeper I…

Hospitality and retail have been hit hard in South Australia as well as Australia by state government sanctioned COVID-19 lockdowns. If that wasn’t bad enough (it was!), there was very little ongoing state and federal government financial support for the industry. When you (and your industry) get legislated out of…

RTFKT is a company you haven’t heard of. They are creators of virtual sneakers and non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles which merges physical and digital realities in fashion and gaming. The company was founded less than 2 years ago and has now been acquired by Nike. Why would Nike acquire a…

“Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier.” Yes, but I’ll give you are great example of creating demand that led to the fastest growing sport in America by 1996… Rollerblading. Two years earlier Newsweek estimated the in-line skating market in the U.S. to be $650 million. 40% of that…

“Twitter bio disclaimers” on personal accounts seem redundant to me. From what I can tell, it seems to be a request from employers… If is clear that that the Twitter account is a personal profile (i.e. it has a person’s photo and name) then it’s a personal account and…

Yesterday I was asked how to sell more on OnlyFans… I don’t have any experience with that platform, but I have some thoughts based on humans being the same everywhere. Buying psychology hasn’t changed for some time and the mirror to that — marketing and sales also hasn’t changed. Creators…

I recall in the 1990s my father took me to the Royal Adelaide Show. In one of the front pavilions there was a virtual reality demo. It was so expensive that we couldn’t afford to have a go, but we watched the vision on a screen from the side. The…

News is information presented about new events, trends or issues that are happening or have just happened. And because events, trends or issues are finite (by definition), a News Cycle exists. The News Cycle is the lifecycle of News. It starts with News until that News has lost its timeliness…