Derek Keats: Blog

Talking about things that interest me, and hopefully interest you too.

Monthly archives: June 2016

Derek being aggregated — I was born in a small town at the head of Bonavista Bay on the island of Newfoundland, and finished high school at Smallwood Academy two years after the Catholic Church decided to children of Catholic parents to attend an integrated school. In 1972, two weeks after my 17th birthday, […]

What would universities be like if they were designed for ...

15th June 2016 in Education tagged abundance / scarcity by Derek Keats

The passing of a caterpillar from male to female Diederik cuckoo — A few people have asked me how to take pictures of birds, and I often get asked by casual observers how I do bird photography. Most bird people know this already, so this is really just for the people who ask me so I can point them somewhere. I often […]

Bird photography tips – what you do

12th June 2016 in Birds and bird photography / Nature photography tagged photography tips by Derek Keats

Universities don’t like being considered businesses, but they are, like it or not. Even the public ones. And the global higher education market is non-trivial, being one of the largest market sectors in the global economy. There have been attempts to hack this market before, and some of them are […]

The next big hack – university education

11th June 2016 in Business / Education tagged billionaire / disruption / higher education / university by Derek Keats

I have been thinking of the business opportunities inherent in some of the biggest challenges that humanity faces today. One of the biggest challenges is how we feed ourselves, combined with the fact that there are just so many of us. Solving the damaging effect of livestockproduction is a worthwhile […]

Want to be a billionaire? Hack how we feed ourselves

8th June 2016 in Business tagged entrepreneurship / grand challenge / moonshot by Derek Keats