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20 2026 April

How One Man Lowered the Price of Guinness by Using AI to Call 6,000+ Pubs Across Ireland

Here’s a story that has everything: an entrepreneur’s frustration, an immediately useful idea, game changing use of technology … and a great brand name. It...

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16 2026 April

Four Brilliant Marketing Stories from the Coachella Festival

It’s the middle of the “​consumer wonderland​” of The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the desert experience drawing over 125,000 visitors annually across two...

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26 2026 March

Words That Don’t Exist (Yet) – A Big New Book Announcement!

If you happen to catch some of the news coming out of SXSW last week, you’ll already know that I made a big announcement from...

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12 2026 March

Secrets of Human Connection and My Deeply Personal Annual Challenge

You know when they describe a moment as a calm before the storm? That was last night in Austin as I prepared for a whirlwind...

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18 2026 February

These Professors Just Proved the Power of Having a Visual Metaphor for Your Strategy

Strategy comes to life when you can make it visual. That’s probably not news for most of you, but an article from HBR this week dug a...

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28 2026 January

How Technology is Rethinking Songs and Musical Instruments

Yesterday Eleven Labs announced a collaboration with Grammy award winning artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel to use their AI tools to compose and perform all-new...

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15 2026 January

5 Non-Obvious Takeaways from the World’s Largest Tech Show

I spent several days touring the trade show floor talking with tech experts, trying out demos, encountering lots of weird robots and interviewing people about their visions...

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23 2025 December

How To Create an Obvious Christmas Song in 4 Easy Steps

If the songs and movies all around this December are feeling formulaic, that’s because they are … a fact perfectly brought to life in this...

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08 2025 December

How the Breakers Might Make Everything Better … Just After They Destroy It

Back in the year 2000, I remember driving to a client meeting on the streets of Sydney and sitting in the car outside their office...

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04 2025 December

The 2025 Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide

Today we continue with my annual Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide, featuring a few products that caught my eye throughout the past year. 7. Delayed Gratification...

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03 2025 December

The 2025 Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide

Today we continue with my annual Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide, featuring a few products that caught my eye throughout the past year. 5. Montblanc Digital...

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13 2025 November

Insights about the Future of Writing from Industry Professionals …

At the annual Gathering of the Ghosts event in NY, AI was a hot topic as sessions focused on the business of writing and the future of...

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03 2025 November

The Personal Exoskeletons Are Coming—Here’s What It Means

Nike just announced a groundbreaking new sneaker​ that includes an advanced exoskeleton to make walking and running easier. It’s essentially a bionic shoe. The upside...

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