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Death is Analog
We spend so much of our lives split between our digital and analog worlds, but that changes when somebody dies.
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August 2023
Batman, Business, and the Incomparable
How one Batman cartoon from 1992 demonstrates the strategic value of looking for what makes your business impossible to compare to the competition.
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What's Next for Apple and Amazon?
The world's most valuable company won't buy Disney anytime soon, but there's a giant caveat. Plus, what else will the ecommerce giant do with Amazon…
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When & How Decisions Matter
Life presents us with decisions that matter in different ways, but making necessary distinctions can be hard, and what the heck is "satisficing" anyway?
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The Hollywood Strikes, AI, Strategy, & Overfocusing
The organization on the other side of the negotiating table from the striking writers and actors is the AMPTP, but how can one organization represent…
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July 2023
The Real Social Media
The algorithmic rabbit holes of Facebook, Instagram, and Snap can isolate us, but could we use both today's and tomorrow's digital technologies to…
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Digital Transformation: Three Stories
The ingredients for Digital Transformation are institutional pain, inflection points, and tools lying around, but you also have to get the people part…
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Keyword: Overfocusing
The Hollywood strikes versus what makes experiences special in the first place.
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The Monster in My Ear
How an aural invasion led to a meditation on what makes experiences memorable.
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AI, SCOTUS, and Affirmative Action
Colliding Trends: as the Supreme Court changed college admissions, Chief Justice Roberts argued that personal essays will be more important, but are…
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June 2023
Apple's Vision Pro: What Will it Take to Go Big?
The newest product from the world's most valuable company will transform the world, but not for quite some time.
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