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Hack yourself: measuring wellbeing

Just how many minutes did you spend commuting last year? How did that pint last night affect your sleep? What area of New York City is most likely to trigger an asthma attack? And how did that cup of coffee affect your mental performance this morning? Somewhere, people are asking themselves these very questions.

12.04.2012

Resource-full societies

In times like these it is easy to focus on what we don't have and can't afford. Yet both individually and collectively we have more assets than we give ourselves credit for.

19.03.2012

Designing beta public service: Finding the courage to be imperfect

When Oslo's transport authorities wanted to design and implement a new transport system for Ruter, they knew that providing useful, legible information would be as critical as the lines themselves.

29.09.2011

Trust: A sixth principle for reform

The Open Public Services White Paper aims to 'encourage innovation and give people more choice and control over the services they use by putting power directly in the hands of millions of families and thousands of communities'.

19.07.2011

Thoughts from the Philosophy Shop

This week I visited a learning experience that The Philosophy Shop are delivering on idiscover.

15.07.2011

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