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30 2026 April

What We Can Learn from the Complex Legacy of Tim Cook

One of the biggest tech stories this month was related to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s decision to step down after 15 years leading Apple into...

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29 2026 April

What If the Biggest Threat to Human Thinking Isn’t AI?

Most conversations about the future threat to human reasoning start and end with artificial intelligence. That misses a big threat that’s finally getting more attention:...

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27 2026 April

This Is the Age of AI Sabotage … But How Big of a Problem Is It?

According to a range of new surveys, somewhere between 29% to 44% of employees are admitting to ​finding some ways to sabotage the adoption of...

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13 2026 April

Colombia’s Brilliant Tourism Campaign Focuses on Animal Behavior

Colombia is the world’s fourth most visited country … by animals. When it comes to humans, it’s barely in the top 50 but a very...

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06 2026 April

Why America Needs Less Quietly Obedient Leaders

In the headlines this month here in the US are the moves from the current administration to try and remove citizenship rights from Americans who...

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01 2026 April

Why We Need a Resurgence of the People Who Hire People

One history making moment from last week’s Academy Awards that was easy to forget was the addition of an Oscar for the role of Casting Director....

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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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24 2026 March

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: China’s 90% Model by Ram Charan

Despite the recent postponement of the highly anticipated US-China Summit, now is a perfect time to better understand the state of relations between these two superpowers and...

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18 2026 March

The AI Startup That Raised $1B While Betting Against Generative AI

When a Turing Prize winner raises over a billion dollars to create a new model for the future of AI, people should be paying attention....

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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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11 2026 March

People Are Taking Pride in Using Old Devices

You might call it the longevity flex. As more cell phone services offer constant phone upgrades as soon as you hit the one year anniversary for...

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10 2026 March

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Superbloom by Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr is a well-known thinker and Pulitzer Prize winner who writes about how the Internet has affected our brains. In his latest book published...

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09 2026 March

The Wildly Effective #QuitGPT Movement May be the Easiest Boycott in Human History

The #QuitGPT consumer boycott movement is accelerating. More than 2.5 million people have chosen to delete ChatGPT and switch to another AI model such as Anthropic’s Claude....

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