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My 2023 in Books

Is David Zaslav the new Beeper King?

Dueling Intelligences

The Only Living Boy, a Microfiction

Elon's Just Zis Guy, Y'know?

Let’s Stop Calling it “Social” Media

Truth in a Filtered World

Filtered, a Microfiction

Tribal Shopping

Bubbles

What Will an AI Hardware Device Look Like?

AI and the Productivity Lie

Analog Power-Ups and Relationship Half Lives

Amazon, AI, and Ads on Prime Video

Death is Analog

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Batman, Business, and the Incomparable

What's Next for Apple and Amazon?

When & How Decisions Matter

The Hollywood Strikes, AI, Strategy, & Overfocusing

The Real Social Media

Digital Transformation: Three Stories

Keyword: Overfocusing

The Monster in My Ear

AI, SCOTUS, and Affirmative Action

Apple's Vision Pro: What Will it Take to Go Big?

"The Flash" doesn't suck! — bonus issue!

On Being a Dad

Economist, DeSantis, Trump, Shakespeare

A Recipe for Digital Transformation

Keyword: Persuasion

The Anatomy of Delight

Generative AI, Misinformation, and the Plausibility Loophole

A Urinal in Troutdale: Shakespeare Sightings

Retro Futures: “Redcrosse” and the view from 1997 and 2011 - Bonus

Join me on Notes

Why I Wish CNN Had Waited a Day to Fire Don Lemon: Bonus Dispatch

Keyword: Eventness

Musk, Twitter, NPR

Why You Should Read "Chokepoint Capitalism"

Mid-Week Bonus: Tim Cook, Walmart, & More

Adventures in Self-Disruption

Analog Icebergs, Digital Oceans

Attention is Not a Currency

The Start of the English Major

Would Anyone Under 30 watch "Picard"?

Retro Futures: AI and Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

Microsoft’s New A.I.-Powered Bing and Shakespeare

Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories

Retro Futures: “Looker” (1981), Looking Back, Looking Forward

Why Amazon Blew it Killing “Smile”

Retro Futures, ChatGPT, & More

Artisanal Crap

What’s Curious about Microsoft and OpenAI

CES, Paradigm Shifts, Spandrels, and Collateral Damage

My 2022 in Books