The next Google will look nothing like Google. While there is a big opportunity for companies like DuckDuckGo or Neeva that primarily compete on a single vector (e.g. privacy) but otherwise replicate the Google experience, I am excited about those creating a new, more engaging, personal, and contextualized search experience. This may look like a... See more

The problem, now so drastically different from a decade ago, is not what to read/buy/eat/watch/etc but what is the best thing to read/buy/eat/watch/etc with my limited attention.

Audacious teams, like DuckDuckGo and Neeva, are trying to compete with Google head-on by building massive horizontal search engines. Rather than crawling and indexing... See more

There are tens of thousands of people sharing insights on a long-tail of topics, but their content is buried in the deep corners of the interwebs, found only by chance, and consumed in fleeting social media feeds that strip context and discourage reflection.

If you want to know what the smartest people have to say about the future of fandom, there... See more