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Mark Pretorius is attending Justin Hartman's event

The Next Silicon Cape Networking Event at The Old Biscuit Mill

March 31, 2010 from 6pm to 11pm

Hi there clever and beautiful people of the Silicon Cape.You are called upon to attend the second Silicon Cape Networking Event.We have an extremely exciting line-up of informative entertainment planned for the evening.* To keep things light hearted and hilarious, we have roped in one of South Africa's Most Amazing entertainers, Rob van Vuuren (from Corne and Twakkie fame), as the MC;* Justin Stanford will give us a short and sweet update on what's been happening in the Silicon Cape;* One of…See More

Mar 30, 2010

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Mark Pretorius posted a blog post

Disengage and become the next Deborah Adler

In 2005, Target pharmacies launched their ClearRx prescription system, after a masters student (you guessed it, Deborah Adler) had seen her grandmother get terribly sick because she had taken her husband's medicines by mistake. Deborah decided to give the system a long overdue overhaul.Deborah went on to create a revolutionary packaging system which highlighted items such as the name of the medicine, what it is for, and how to take it. It seems silly when you think about it, but up take a few…See More

Dec 20, 2009

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Keeping work from getting stale: Disengage

“According to Monahan, it’s important to “disengage” – to break the pattern of the way you might normally think about solving a problem......Recent studies on insights......have found that these mental glimmer moments occur most often when you temporarily disengage from a problem and ease up a bit.”- Warren Burger: “Glimmer: How design can transform your business, your life, and maybe even the world” PP 65.It’s amazing that when you become very busy and consumed in a project (or 3 projects as…See More

Dec 11, 2009

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Nov 30, 2009

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