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This is anything but an argument against technology, were such a thing even coherent. It’s an argument for taking technology as seriously as it deserves to be taken, for recognizing, as McLuhan’s friend and colleague John M. Culkin put it, “we shape our tools, and thereafter, they shape us.”

It’s 2020, nobody believes in one job for life anymore, or even one area of interest. People want to leverage what they already know in order to gain access to jobs where they’ll learn and try new things. For many of the world’s best talent: non-linear is the new black and finding a way to combine passion and paid work with lifelong learning are fa... See more

 people value intelligence and cleverness without similarly valuing on-the-ground knowledge or intellectual rigor. People often discuss the standard trendy topics (some recent ones I've observed at multiple parties are how to build a competitor to Google search and how to solve the problem of high transit construction costs) and explain why pe... See more

One of the fundamental questions of incentive alignment that emerging companies must ask themselves is whether their primary relationship to their customers' growth is passive (“Enablers”) or active (“Growers”).

Is it possible to solve the problem of attention theft? As we transition into an increasingly digital existence, we are torn between existing in the real-world and the metaverse. Logging off for sanity, connectedness, peace of mind, seems almost irresponsible because of the personal and professional obligation to be reachable; because technology en... See more

However, the one model that I am the most excited about is browsing e-commerce. Current leaders, Amazon, Alibaba or JD, are mostly search based — users know what they want, they search for it on the app, and find the product within the first scroll. Browsing e-commerce is a model where users come with the intent of having fun, much like going to a ... See more

A growing number of toy companies are increasingly targeting family members rather than just parents due to intergenerational wealth inequality: millennials, the generation now having kids, hold just 3% of US wealth. Baby Boomers, in contrast, have 60% of US wealth. While millenials are today's new parents, grandparents have the disposable income.

In the last 10 years there have been mobile apps and smartwatches and bed straps that promise to capture how well we are (or aren’t) sleeping.