Dave Duarte

Entrepreneur & campaigner. Leading change, facilitating growth, and building communities.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jeff Bezos explains why “wandering” is essential for invention

“Wandering is so important because wandering is a kind of humility,” Jeff Bezos begins. “Wandering sounds so inefficient, but the only way to go straight to your destination is if you know where you’re going.”

Jeff continues:

“Sometimes you know where you’re going. But sometimes you don’t. And wandering is the acknowledgement that — in life, business, invention, and building a company — a lot of the time you can see the mountain top, but you can’t see the trail. So you have to explore and wander. It may feel very inefficient. But it’s actually very valuable.”

Ultimately, Jeff explains, you need to balance execution and exploration:

“When you know where you’re going, yes, you should be very efficient . . . You just need to do both [exploration and determined execution]. And they actually do feed each other. It’s the things that come out of the execution that give you new data and ideas about what the next steps should be in your exploration. The two things don’t work against each other. They work together.”

Source: @Reuters (Oct 2025)

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

Our beautiful 'Great African Seaforest' featured in @TIME 🌊😍

"At the edge of Cape Town’s city lights, one of the ocean’s most intricate ecosystems is held together by creatures most people have never seen."

📲 Full article: https://t.co/SdO2QX8h5H

[Dave Duarte @DaveDuarte]

When an agency works out they can turn a two-week process in a two-day process, you would think they would celebrate but instead they panic.

[42courses @42Courses]

New Podcast 🎙️: Dave Duarte – The Half-Life of Knowledge in the AI Age

AI is moving at full speed. Most of us are just trying not to fall off.

In our latest episode, Chris sits down with Dave Duarte to ask a simple but uncomfortable question: what’s actually worth learning when every shiny new tool has the shelf life of a banana? @DaveDuarte

Expect philosophy, paperclip machines, mildly creepy smart homes, and a genuinely useful framework for staying authentically human while everything else gets automated.

If you’ve been quietly wondering whether you’re learning the right things, this one’s for you.

Listen now: https://t.co/U126okTGW8

[Dave Duarte @DaveDuarte]

The best meeting hack of the year so far for me is SO simple: default ad-hoc meetings to as late in the day as possible.

So first meeting booked would be at 4:30pm; second at 3:30pm and so on.

This protects my deep-focus mornings and afternoon meetings have better context.

[Roman Cabanac @RomanCabanac]

My main concern about Johannesburg is that Herman Mashaba will get 3-4% of the votes, become the kingmaker, and hand it back to the ANC and EFF.

He is that vindictive as a person.

[Dave Duarte @DaveDuarte]

"When you want to change culture, you can't start at the bottom. That's a coup. You need a small group of the top people."

- John Smit, former Springbok Captain and CEO #changeleadership (speaking at Liberty conference at Zimbali)

[Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 @vukosi]

A journey. Time to put in your comments

[Dave Duarte @DaveDuarte]

Sent to me by someone who goes ALL IN on their life mission, and is truly achieving extraordinary things.

[Dave Duarte @DaveDuarte]

The ad agency business model is notoriously limited, but the value proposition is infinitely scalable: build reputation, win more customers. There’s endless demand for that.

[Jordan Griffiths @JordiGriff]

⛽️ ⛽️ ⛽️
Breaking!!
Fuel levy to be cut by R3 a litre!
This will bring immense relief to consumers as prices are set to rise.
Thank you to the DA for applying the pressure to make this happen!

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

This video never gets old... she was pure genius!

[Dave Duarte @DaveDuarte]

Credit for this "AI = Ancestral Intelligence" goes to renowned ceramicist Andile Dyalvane.

[Dave Duarte @DaveDuarte]

"AI is ancestral intelligence. It doesn't come from nothing, it is built on the knowledge and craft of those who came before us" - Erika Elk, @Craft_andDesign

[Dave Duarte @DaveDuarte]

https://t.co/RMHDNk2Y8B

[Qaanitah Hunter @QaanitahHunter]

I wrote in my column that most of those contesting the DA leadership are millennials under 45.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

Medellín, Colombia dropped its city's warming temps by a whopping 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

How?

They created "green corridors" of trees and plants throughout the built city.

It cost $6.50 per resident, and will save the city millions of dollars each year.

We need more of this!

[Dave Duarte @DaveDuarte]

Tomorrow is World Water Day! I just did my #WorldWaterRun because our lives run on water, and we absolutely cannot take it for granted. Vote for responsible water management, and support leaders who invest in good water infrastructure & policy. Sign up to do your world water run here https://t.co/G56fdjgcVI - thanks @minaguli for making this happen 🌍🌊👟

[UN-Water @UN_Water]

What are your plans for #WorldWaterDay?💧

Join the #WorldWaterRun from 20–22 March and be part of a global movement for water.

Let’s run to raise awareness and inspire action.
https://t.co/YnPAsZNnlm