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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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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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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Lessons From Utopias, the World’s Most Expensive Beer
It’s a cross between a fine liquor and a reimagined beer. It’s also $240 per bottle and banned in 15 states due to having an...
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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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A New Product That Imagines an Anti-Surveillance Future
One of the biggest viral tech stories this week was an announcement from a company called Deveillance that announced a product called Spectre 1: the first smart...
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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....
Read Now16 2026 March
The Pioneering New Science of Dream Engineering
It sounds like a story out of science fiction. Technology that can influence how we dream and what we dream about. This fascinating new field is...
Read Now10 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...
Read Now03 2026 March
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Another World Is Possible by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
What if you could study the best programs and ideas from around the world and offer an argument for how to replicate them elsewhere? That’s...
Read Now09 2026 February
How the Joy Factor and “Kidults” Are Saving the Toy Industry
The toy industry had a “bounce back year” according to Circana industry reports, with global sales climbing 7%. This follows three straight years of decline and...
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Why We Should Stop Celebrating When Big Dreams Fail
The grand vision of Neom — the Saudi megacity that was going to change the future of how and where humans live– is officially a failure. The...
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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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