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A love letter to shared facts, and The Economist
In 1999 I was working at an ad agency, one that purported to be global in its reach and capabilities. It was not. The lobby had a large, circular coffee table strewn with magazines. Those magazines...
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We are all AI lion tamers
AI has made us all lion tamers. We’re all Wayne Franzen. I met Wayne when I was 18. He epitomized what makes the U.S. extraordinary. He taught school, but his boyhood love of circuses never left. He...
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Applying the Deer Whistle Test
I love my family. It’s currently the waning hours of a Thanksgiving weekend, and I’ve been watching NFL football while placing small wagers with my brother (capped at $20 per game), and enjoying some...
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Reading and writing in the age of AI
What do Brian Krzanich, CEO of Cerence AI (formerly CEO of Intel), and Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, have in common? They’re both tech leaders who don’t read books. They aren’t alone. There...
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AI has resuffled the recipe for career success
Artificial intelligence has scrambled career plans for professionals. So much is unknown about what an AI-driven career will look like even five years from now. A recent post by Professor Scott...
View ArticleLGBTQ+ Pride celebrations matter today more than ever
A version of this was originally shared in a Pride edition of a newsletter behind my employer’s firewall. I met Arnie at a job we both hated. It was Milwaukee in the mid-1980s, and we were earning a...
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Elon named his xAI computer after a sci-fi Titanic
When technology journalist Kara Swisher interviewed philanthropist Melinda French Gates, the topic turned to the importance of getting more women and girls involved in the AI revolution. Swisher has a...
View ArticleStriving to understand the origins of “shtrive”
I’m fascinated by linguistics. To the point where I have, for more than a decade, subscribed to John McWharter’s podcast Lexicon Valley. I no longer think I have it in me to learn a second language,...
View ArticleWhy I’ve left the last Meta platform
On January 7 of this year, Mark Zuckerberg announced he’s getting rid of fact checkers at Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and is instead relying on “community notes, similar to X.”...
View ArticleIn Praise of Slow Thinking
I’m late to the party in my fandom of Scott Galloway. I got to know him from his joint podcast with Kara Swisher, Pivot. I’ve come to admire his solid analysis of business and politics, and...
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A Tale of Two Hot Sauces
I have endorsed the first dish listed below to — I’m guessing — a dozen co-workers and friends. It’s that good. If you like roasted veggies and a spice with lots of umami, you need to try it. The...
View ArticleDriveshaft: A one-act comedy in a time capsule
You should know that I tend to abandon my past with the casualness of a snake shedding its skin. I’m not proud of this. (Maybe snakes aren’t thrilled about the shedding thing either.) I remember...
View ArticleThe Pale Blue Dot
Originally posted on my Post.news account Last night I dreamed about being in a war, in an old abandoned building with my comrades, working on some vague military intelligence. Then I realized that...
View ArticleFiring NFTs From a Tee-Shirt Cannon: A Humble Metaverse Use Case
I first started blogging about the metaverse 15 years ago. Back then it was speculation about the adoption “stickiness” of Second Life, by Linden Labs. Much has changed, as evidenced by Mark...
View ArticleNotes on my 15 years on Twitter
I just posted three things I’ve learned over the decade-and-a-half on Elon Musk’s latest acquisition target. You can read about them on my business blog.
View ArticleSong Exploder Features Lucy Dacus
Lucy is an extraordinary singer / songwriter. The lyrics of her best songs are spare, incisive poems. Three years ago I was blown away by her song Night Shift. It was a break-up song I couldn’t help...
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Technology changes how we see ourselves
I posted a version of this on my marketing technology blog in 2008, during an exotic summer vacation. This was just months after Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone, and I had no idea I was living...
View ArticleThe physics of icebergs (re)explained
We learned about why ice floats when we were in our first science class, if not earlier. The density of ice means roughly 10% by volume juts above the surface of the water surrounding it. The...
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When change happens, life coach Elvira Marie Chang is there to help
Late last year I was entering a time of transition. My job of 10 years became a casualty of Covid, and I was forced to take stock and decide where I wanted to go next. Elvira Chang helped me without...
View ArticleI’ve joined TA Digital!
I’ve joined TA Digital, a Customer Experience and Digital Transformation agency!Teaming up with this extraordinary 20-year-old agency will give me new opportunities to build and deliver capabilities...
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