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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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02 2026 April

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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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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19 2026 March

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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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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16 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...

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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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03 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...

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09 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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02 2026 February

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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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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