Interns! We have interns! Welcome to the tribeAs Garry Ridge, the former CEO of WD-40 says, in his wonderful book Any Dumb-Ass Can Do It, citing Sebastian Junger, “The earliest and most…2d ago2d ago
The Benefits of Bureaucracy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Red TapeThroughout much of human history, power was exercised through a system of patrimonialism, as the great sociologist Max Weber coined the…Feb 251Feb 251
Is AI coming for your job? Depends on who you askAstonishingly, the age of AI introduced by the November, 2022 release of ChatGPT has been around long enough that we’re starting to build…Feb 43Feb 43
Why the party’s over at Party City, but Build-A-Bear Workshop is ThrivingWe’ve been talking about the retail apocalypse for quite some time now. And the sector sure has had its problems — from rapacious Private…Jan 21Jan 21
Join me at the Conference Forbes declared one of the top 5 to attend this year- April 29–30 in…We’ve all been to conferences that are either a bunch of talking heads or even worse, panel after panel after panel without a lot of new…Jan 141Jan 141
2025: Are you able to turn navigating uncertainty into an asset?The coming year promises to be one in which long-held assumptions about how business works are going to be thoroughly upended. While this…Jan 76Jan 76
2024 Year in Review: Surprising ways human ingenuity thrives through inflectionsThere is no shortage of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) to go around. As Futurist Amy Webb points out in her 2024 SXSW talk, we’re in the…Dec 20, 20241Dec 20, 20241
Escaping the outrage machine — Is Bluesky becoming a thing?As my Thought Sparks guest Steven Brill points out, absence of accountability for content posted on social media sites, plus algorithms…Nov 26, 2024Nov 26, 2024
“It’s as though the Albanian army was going to take over the world”Where better to learn about the potential and the pitfalls of AI than at MIT! I was thrilled to join the program as part of the opening…Nov 19, 2024Nov 19, 2024
