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All my latest writing, reports, speaking, and podcasts around the various internets

Working anywhere, anytime: what’s next for remote work
One of my new clients for 2021 is Braintrust, a company that is reinventing the future of work by taking the mechanics of the gig economy to the...
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Spotify’s ‘Car Thing’ is an iPod Touch with a big knob and a fatal flaw
Oh those products that come so close to being magical … but have one thing about them that just absolutely opposes the stated purpose...
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Synthetic AI-generated humans: is the future of fashion fake?
We have synthetic humans earning millions as influencers and models who are created by a computer. What’s driving this … and where’s it all going? To...
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IBM’s Weather Company has a path to billions in new revenue, thanks to the rise of the subscription economy
I recently had a chance to interview IBM VP and global head of Watson Advertising and Weather Sheri Bachstein for the second time. She’s a...
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I am the CEO of $SMRT
I am excited, bemused, amused, and yes, also hopeful to announce that I am the CEO of $SMRT, a creator coin cryptocurrency issued by Rally.io. And I...
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