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Microsft’s CEO posted an article in X yesterday about how the real value of AI for organizations is not in what the AI model can do for you, but in the learning loops you can architect between your knowledge, the AI you use, and back again. Awesome! But so much more is possible. Much of [ ]
Nonprofit Quarterly ran a post Friday offering a really inspiring case study of a group of elder care advocates that used a sub-$10K annual budget to mobilize $200M in public investment for improved care of of elders. The group, called Dignity Alliance Massachusetts, compliments a larger institutional campaign. The article, written by a member of [ ]
The most quick-and-dirty foresight model that futurists use is called In-casting. Anyone can do it by picturing a potential scenario in the future and answering three questions: Answer those three questions even briefly and you ve got a good warm start at dealing with the future. I want to focus on the newly prohibited part of [ ]
Five Coalitions, Five Perspectives — Actor Framing Matrix Full screen Five Coalitions,Five Perspectives (at least) At the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, five distinct actor blocs used the same word — transition — but loaded it with fundamentally different meanings. Hover any cell for the primary-source evidence behind each framing score. Actor [ ]
In many fields, big improvements are coming from a new strategy: closing the gap between what systems already know and what information they can use to make decisions. Using the past to fuel acceleration into the future. I’m going to start blogging again, because I have things to say and I want to connect with [ ]
Azeem Azhar asked members of his community for their current favorite ways to use various AI tools, and I thought I d share my current list publicly here. I could go on, but perhaps I should write something like this quarterly. I love experimenting with things like this and I bring almost all of these into [ ]
The holy grail of AI for many of us is to chat with the notes we ve taken over the years, isn t it? If you read a lot, and write down a lot, you can probably see (always just over the horizon) the potential power of AI to help unlock incredible value hiding inside our archive [ ]
I m excited to say that after 5+ years working at Sprinklr, the market leader for customer experience management and social media marketing for the world s biggest organizations, I have resigned from my job and I m soon on to my next adventure! I thought I d take this time to share some of the things I learned from [ ]
I’ve started contributing to a new collaboration that I couldn’t be more excited about. Azeem Ahzar and Marija Gavrilov have asked me to curate and summarize each week’s stories of climate change mitigation success and momentum for the amazing email newsletter Exponential View. It’s an amazing opportunity to work with information (as I like to [ ]
I am always struggling with the relationship between aspirations and capacity, something I ve really only grown aware of in recent years. In part by blowing far beyond even my substantial capacity for too long with some family crises, and in part by reading the really smart book On Grand Strategy, which is largely focused on [ ]
A friend asked me recently what some of the core principles are in my note taking and review system. I get a whole lot of value out of my note system and I love talking to notes nerds. But not notes for notes sake! For making an impact on the world, for the better. When [ ]
Data apprentice sought. I m going to try an experiment, but I can t do it alone. I believe this is a chance to have a horizon-expanding experience that makes a meaningful impact on climate change. Maybe this is of interest to you or maybe you know someone it would be a good fit for. Goal: [ ]
In a time of information overload, careful curation is a way any of us can add value to the the lives and minds of our peers. In that spirit, and on the encouragement of my friend Mike Mathews, I thought I d experiment with a link-blog type post, which will then be delivered to email newsletter [ ]
I ve set up thousands of alerts over my career as a journalist, entrepreneur, and now marketer. SMS alerts about every new blog post on a long list of company blogs were how I beat everyone to the punch almost 15 years ago and became the first writer hired at TechCrunch. Today I monitor for AI-benchmarked [ ]
This is a time of big change but at least in our individual lives, the changes most likely to stick are those we each choose to make. Of course life is a fascinating mix of choice and circumstance. As Sartre once wrote, freedom is what you do with what s been done to you. What changes [ ]
I love my job. I get asked every other month what my Employee Satisfaction score is and at last report, it was a 10 out of 10! I ve worked at Sprinklr for more than 3 years now and it just keeps getting better. And by that I mean I just keep learning more every day. [ ]
I attended SXSW 2019 with my employer Sprinklr, and one of the sessions I got a lot out of was titled How Data is Revolutionizing the NFL. I took notes on paper and now that I m back in the office, I transcribed some of the most interesting notes from the session and thought I d share them [ ]
I m not going to write yet another post about how to grow your blog subscribers (in my experience working for blogs like TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb, our key tactics were to write regularly and to break news on topics of widespread interest) but instead I want to share some thoughts on the personal and professional growth [ ]
Information overload is a defining challenge of our time. It s tempting to just shut down, ignore all the incredible things on the internet, or rely on serendipity and social feeds to bring you what you need. You don t have to do that, though. There are strategies and tools that you can use to tap thoughtfully [ ]
Walmart announced today that it will require suppliers of leafy greens to upload data to a private blockchain provided by IBM next year. The goal is to make it much faster to verify origins of greens responsible for food borne illness. That will be good for people who buy spinach at Walmart and for Walmart s [ ]