An analysis of AI's role in accelerating a more personalized, on-demand future and changing the everyday interactions of people, politics, and profit. — In a previous article, I introduced and labeled a massive cross-generational technology-powered trend I call “Unbundling.” Unbundling refers to breaking down traditional systems, industries, and products into their constituent components, enabling people to have more personalized experiences.

Context As AI becomes a transformative part of our technology landscape, a common vocabulary about the capabilities of each new tool and technique is essential. Common vocabularies create shared intellectual spaces allowing all stakeholders to accelerate understanding, increase adoption, facilitate collaboration, benchmark progress, and drive innovation. So far, the most widely…

As someone who worked closely with Uber leadership in the early days of the company, I figured I’d take the latest Guardian hit piece and add some color commentary. — “I am partly responsible,” he said. “I was the one talking to governments, I was the one pushing this with the media, I was the one telling people that they should change the rules because drivers were going to benefit and people were going to get so much economic opportunity.

People are so confused about NFTs. Part of the confusion is that they’re being misrepresented by the current hype cycle. The first problem is that they have the wrong name. They’re named in contrast to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies instead of being called what they really are. It would be…

An essential part of the value I bring to the companies I work with as an external advisor and fractional executive is simply having the emotional and tactical distance from the day-to-day details, people, and politics to see things just a little bit more clearly. When you have some distance…

This is my most important startup post of the year. — Scale is the most important goal for any startup. But how do startups scale? How do large companies act and disrupt like startups do? That’s the number one thing that most founders and companies I encounter struggle with. …

1. Measuring the right things GDP and Stock market growth are not the only measures of success. We need to measure violence, happiness, equity and so much more. What you measure you pay attention to. What you pay attention to, you work on and change. 2. An explicitly agreed minimum standard of living Any group of any size — including a society —…

One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is a rapid and increasing rate of change. Curiosity is the way you learn and adapt more quickly. Over the next ~19 days I’ll be sharing the key character traits of leaders from my book “The Leadership Lens”. These snippets are…

Your intention forms the basis for all your words and actions. Set it consciously to communicate and act more consistently. Over the next ~19 days I’ll be sharing the key character traits of leaders from my book “The Leadership Lens”. These snippets are the key descriptions of how leaders think and act within the book. The book, of course, goes quite a bit further to give examples, explain why they…