The biggest task of my final year was handed to me today and it went pretty much like this.

“Come up with a field of interest in culture and technology to write your dissertation on and come up with something you can make worth 40 credits linked directly to your dissertation, in a week”

Nice, no rush, no pressure, no none at all. Next, I did what I always do when faced with a challenge got silly drunk and put off thinking about it in anyway till the next day. There is some reason behind this before you stop reading! Firstly let’s get one thing straight, drinking wasn’t required, however it’s the week after freashers week and as I’m going to be bogged down with work for the rest of this term (at least) I needed to get more fun out of the way. Secondly, I can never completely remove something from my mind and as I have found by experience, something great just seems to come to me after a couple of days pondering the problem, most of the time in the shower oddly enough. I don’t know why or how it happens it just does. continue reading…

I have just finished reading a fantastic book on Google called The Google Story. I didn’t think for a minute that what I would be reading would open up my thinking on business so much. It is true to say that Google are one of the biggest DotCom super companies on the stock exchange today and how they (Sergey and Larry) got Google there is just phenomenal.

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