Category: Ideas We Like

  • “Starfields” not black holes: how we should harness tech’s next Big Bang

    It’s crucial that we the public force a conversation about the changes that are coming to how we work, what we learn and who we trust. All these technologies should serve us, with a focus on healthy, impactful human interaction. We should demand transparency and accountability from them as they’re being developed — be it…

  • Gratitude on two wheels, rage on four: a metaphor for our “age of acceleration?”

    I see a direct parallel between how I commute and how we interact with each other today. Our online communication has put us in a heightened state of emotion. Try to notice your own feelings next time when you’re perusing your social media feed.

  • Zen and the art of the slide-free keynote

    Here are the two questions I ask myself anytime I seek to share something I’ve created: why am I sharing this? And so what? Is it meaningful in any way to me or to my friends, colleagues, students, family, followers? I stopped giving keynotes on storytelling a couple of years ago because I couldn’t credibly answer…

  • Storytelling needs a social infrastructure

    I published a letter to my community at the same time another leader did the same to his exponentially larger one yesterday. Coincidentally, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and I both explicitly referenced “social infrastructure” as counterbalance to the tech solutionism many of us early adopters championed over a decade ago. In that time, we’ve grown accustomed…