• Higher Ed on the precipice: hacking a solution in April

    I direct a highly-respected graduate program for professionals looking to engage and persuade through digital platforms.  Over the last decade, that technology has severely disrupted business models that were once held sacrosanct in the industrial age: journalism, music, politics, mass communications.  We no longer need institutional permission to create media and connect to strangers who actually want…

  • Our best show yet? The Economics of Passion

    The March episode of Four Peaks just flowed when we recorded it.  This is how we framed it: Creative, intellectual and artistic pursuits lead to a fresh perspective and an entrepreneurial mindset. We’ll talk to renowned photographer Chase Jarvis, whose “Seattle 100” profiled influencers from industries that collectively bring a $13 billion in economic benefit…

  • Shabbat Shalom — why I’m unplugging at sundown Friday

    [UPDATE: You can now listen to the audio from my radio interview with KUOW’s Ross Reynolds on The Conversation about the National Day of Unplugging — just before I unplugged.] I lived in Israel for nearly four years as a journalist with NBC News.  I never got quite accustomed to how the country would shutdown…

  • My top 3 recent “must-consume” pieces of pop culture storytelling

    1. 11/22/63 Stephen King: “On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force.” I may have…