Tag Archives: Taxi

Quarter Mile Knowledge

Posted on June 16, 2015 by julianstodd

Terrible traffic today in London: i ended up having to jump in a cab to get to a conference session, but reckon it would have been easier to walk. So plenty of time to talk to the cabbie. In London, … Continue reading →

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Disruption: Catalyst of the Social Age

Posted on April 10, 2015 by julianstodd

In London for the day yesterday: i asked the taxi driver how busy he’d been. Not busy at all, was the answer: it’s Uber, he said, they’re stealing the market. Tough times, he said. There was talk of reducing the … Continue reading →

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Developing ‘The Knowledge’: rewiring the adaptable brain

Posted on March 14, 2013 by julianstodd

I was bouncing around London yesterday, on one leg, by taxi, i got into a conversation about ‘The Knowledge‘. To be a cabbie in London, you have to acquire The Knowledge, a notoriously difficult task, typically taking three or four … Continue reading →

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“I hate learning”. Lessons on change and taxi driving.

Posted on April 16, 2012 by julianstodd

The system for allocating a taxi to respond to a call relies on a seven second window. When the job comes in, the person in the office who takes the call types it into the system and hits ‘go’. The … Continue reading →

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