Tag: technology

  • How we answer the call to action

    I’ve gradually wound down the many formal roles I’ve held over these past years. I’m left acutely aware of my relevance — and of any useful superpower. We all have such a thing. Indeed, it’s how I frame many a career advice conversation: what’s the one marketable strength you could be called upon to deploy…

  • Take the time to get it right: capturing aurora borealis

    There’s still time to get it right. But we have to take the time to get it right, even as we push ourselves to the risky edge. That’s the allegorical lesson learned as we move into a new year — and as I headed to Alaska to capture lightning in a bottle. It was a…

  • The gift of peripheral vision: what we need to learn now about AI

    Doing time at a leading global university doesn’t exactly render you powerless. Still, as I have long advised my students: it is precisely this temporary removal from the game that matters most. To tarry a while on the periphery is to see what’s really going on. I can’t think of a more urgent time to…

  • 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…