The Internet caught fire the day the world learnt that if you’re a visitor at a Swedish house during meal times, the family is likely to have their meal together without offering you to eat with them (#SwedenGate). While this is an entirely normal part of Swedish culture, it was a culture shock for people…
Have you ever found yourself in a dentist’s chair with cold sweat rolling down your brow about to get your wisdom teeth extracted? Your jaw is numb, fingers clenched into a fist, and as you watch the dentist descend into your mouth with their sharp, shiny tools, you wonder, in fear, why on Earth you…
If you were to enter a news portal or pick up any paper recently, you would most certainly see common themes dominating the headlines. These include climate change awareness, mental health advocacy, the #MeToo movement, and corporate governance scandals, to name a few. In this day and age, investors, employees, customers and the public are…
Remember the Segway? The two-wheeled electric scooter that promised to revolutionise transportation? Back then, its inventor, investors and the media believed that people would flock to it the way they once flocked to cars as a superior alternative to horse and carriage. Of course, flash forward to today, and we know that the Segway turned…
Can you remember when it took you days to download a song, your Internet was on dial-up, and Minesweeper was all the rage? Those days might’ve felt like a different lifetime, but in reality, the rise of the Internet only began 40 years ago. Since then, we’ve evolved at breakneck speed, with technology and the…
