Caffeine increases the ability to focus and problem solve, but a new study by a University of Arkansas researcher indicates it doesn’t stimulate creativity. “In Western cultures, caffeine is stereotypically associated with creative occupations and lifestyles, from writers and their coffee to programmers and their energy drinks, and there’s more than a kernel of truth…
Platforms are Powerful Business Models — but Pitfalls Await the Unwary
An ecosystem is a network of companies and, often, individuals connected by flows of data, money, products and services. A platform is a kind of business model that takes advantage of ecosystems, facilitating transactions between large networks of users such as sellers and buyers, drivers and riders, hosts and guests. The dramatic digital advances that…
Layover or nonstop? Unique pattern of connectivity
A new study led by UCLA Health scientists shows highly creative people’s brains appear to work differently from others’, with an atypical approach that makes distant connections more quickly by bypassing the “hubs” seen in non-creative brains. Exceptionally creative visual artists and scientists — called “Big C” creative types — volunteered to undergo functional MRI…
Corporate Sledging
Cricket is a religion in India, isn’t it? And whether we all look back into our childhood memories of the long lost “gully” cricket, it certainly rings a bell in our hearts. Well, as familiar as the cricketing scenario might be so is sledging. It has existed in the eighties and it exists even now….