Leuty Parker

Tag: #project

  • The Black Swan Effect

    The Black Swan effect refers to rare, unexpected events that have huge impacts, and only seem obvious in hindsight. It’s like the butterfly effect; small or unpredictable triggers lead to dramatic, far-reaching consequences.

    In short, it explains how humans underestimate the likelihood of extreme situations, but rely heavily on past data.

    Important attributes include unpredictability; nothing in the past clearly points defined the future.

    It concludes to really big consequences; PESTLE (as learned in my MSc: Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental) or cultural. It’s only afterwards when it becomes obvious and should have been expected.

    Black Swanevents can instantly transform entire industries, markets, technologies, and even society itself.

  • Future Directions

    If you’ve been following my blog (or even seen some posts) you might have understood that I HATE being out of work.

    Aside from lack of income, the main issue was lack of direction. Lack of objective. Most mornings, I’d wake, and think “there’s no reason for me to get out of bed”.

    So, both wishing to make others’ who are in my position’s life’s easier (grammar?), along with something to actually do, I started this blog.

    As well, it has clarified where my priorities are. What I find important. What makes me, me.

    The amount of tumult in spells of posting frequently, to nothing for weeks, helped me realise that this is perhaps, more of a recreation activity.

    BUT…..

  • Investing

    So, knowledge has always been my priority. This is probably why being out of work has been so demoralising…

    I’ll start an MBA in Edinburgh business school in September! So I see a future of investing approaching…

    For my theme, I’m thinking Medi-tech (probably due to my multiple instancess of medical conditions).

    And when choosing a startup to invest (time/money/experience/effort), I should ask;

    “Will this project enamble us to increase production and profits?”

    “Will it produce economic growth ?”

    In other words;

    What?

    So what?

    Now what?

  • Larger

    I used to be super skinny, but I was in a coma for about 10 months and was pretty sedentary (learning how to walk again) and gained a bit of weight.

    I have some clothes from my past life which I’m very reluctant to throw away. We have a special relationship with each garment. For some garments we like because we did a certain thing whilst wearing, or we like certain aspects of the design.

    I kept this brilliant pair of jeans which were personalised with my name embroidered on the side seam. I love them & they’re irreplaceable, but they’re too small for me.

    What I did is spoke to my friend who’s a tailor. They’re being tailored to a bigger size , so they’ll fit me.

    Maybe there’s a business in this; people wanting clothes that they already have, but making them a bigger size.

    Being a wearable technology designer, I try to find a digital way to make your clothes. It does also help the attraction of “reusing” what you already have. An environmental aspect to this plan.