
Ben Morley-John is a major force in Smash Delta. Here’s his linked in profile. Here’s Smash Delta’s site and their beautiful research on Smart Cities.
In this episode Ben and I cover:
- how Smash Delta blends capability to make integration faster (and which capabilities they think are important)
- the key elements for a great data scientist
- why ego is catastrophic in this industry
- why he’s not that excited about conferences anymore and what he thinks needs to happen to make it better
- the problems of consultants on their high horses, using impenetrable jargon and creating complexity (and how to get over it)
- Ben’s brain hack: Genius Foods
- the best way to learn fast, get respect and cut through the crap quickly
Ben Morley-John’s interesting side links
Definition of inimitable: so good or unusual as to be impossible to copy; unique
Ben sits on the board for Hope for Sydney , which helps people find places to volunteer: go check it out.
Here’s Heal the World, the Michael Jackson song we allude to:
TV shows
- Seinfeld
- Friends
- The Good Place (and the Good Place podcast)
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Big Little Lies
- Stranger Things
- 30 Rock
- Arrested Development
Keeping up
- The inverted pyramid and my version of it: the Complex Insights Explainer Tool. Liz Moore talks about this in her podcast.
- Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, And More Productive, While Protecting Your Brain Health For Life
- Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity–What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
- Australian Financial Review (AFR)
- The Daily
- Hacker News
- Tech Crunch
- Stephen Colbert’s Late Show
- Michael Barbaro New York Times Podcast