Ian Burgess

I have been working through Paul Dolan book which I have found extremely interesting. This talk gives a good insight in to his thoughts.

I have been spending a lot of time researching Think Tanks and NGOs and thought this video created several interesting points and worth a watch.

Maria Konnikova’s book Mastermind: How to Think like Sherlock Holmes uses scientific methods and psychology to explain the feats of Sherlock Holmes and the methods that can be used develop these skills. This talk is excellent and explains much of the cold reading skills that he uses in the stories.

The buzz was intense an excellent mix between entrepreneur and tech and at night expanding to take over the whole of Dublin. Definitely "Glastonbury for Geeks" "The more diverse the people the more the growth. We were described before as Davos for Geeks but I don’t think we’re anything like that – there’s no snipers on the roof for starters! We’re probably more like a Glastonbury for Geeks...

Cathryn Posey’s talk at the Web Summit in Dublin yesterday, looking to disrupt the gender roles in the industry. On Twitter: https://twitter.com/catpoetry Web: http://www.techbysuperwomen.com

With the Web Summit less then 5 Days away I have been going through the Schedule and selecting the sessions I am looking to attend and setting up some meeting with other attendees. Anyone who is going and looking to catch up let me know in the comments section below.

Currently the 4am experiment is working well, I am receiving several benefits from it: Work With my mind fresh from the nights sleep I often find answers to issues I have been thinking over. I have time to make a dent if not finish the main tasks I have to focus on that day. Health I can easily fit in time to do exercise and qigong. As a result of the progress and time that I have...

The Hypothesis Over the last few years it has become apparent that my ability to be productive is focused in the morning, with work in the later half of the day seaming to take more effort. This coupled with the fact that I seem to require very little sleep has lead me to look at shifting my day to attempt to capture more of my tasks within this productive window. My intention is to along...

Having spent the weekend and the Friday night at the conference it has taken till now to get my thoughts on the key messages together.The diner on the Friday night was a pleasant experience in with recognition for IC member Simon Haslam who recently was placed 6th at the international consulting awards. The encouraging points of the dinner came of the back of the brief presentation by Ann...

After an invite from Next Action Associates to come to Google Campus and listen to David Allan talk about GTD. As always the brief talk brought about some thought provoking insights and humour that you come to expect from David Allen. The question section as always came round to discussing email and the other inputs that as knowledge workers need to make decisions on every day, with...