26 2025 December
The Season of Curated Recaps Is Here, With CES Around the Corner
Imagine eye drops that temporarily correct your vision. Or ear buds that transform how you sleep. Or a new type of wood that has the...
Read Now06 2025 November
Why Zohran Mamdani Won the NY Mayoral Election
The day after stories of Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric rise and win of the NY city Mayoral election were everywhere this week. The best recap I read...
Read Now03 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...
Read Now14 2025 October
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: A Kids Book About Diwali by Chhavi Arya Bhargava
It’s Diwali season and the holiday is getting continued attention from many groups outside the South Asian community, so I wanted to come back and...
Read Now03 2025 September
The Human Insight Behind a Restaurant That Promises Not to Make Any Money
A new restaurant in Manhattan called the Community Kitchen is doing a pilot test through November of a business model where people choose to pay...
Read Now17 2025 July
An Important Lesson About Youth Culture from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Every summer on the National Mall in DC the Smithsonian hosts their Folklife Festival. Typically, the weekend-long event brings craftspeople from around the world to...
Read Now15 2025 July
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Afrofuturism by Kevin M. Strait and Kinshasha Holman Conwill
“There are Black people in the future.” That’s the brilliant reminder on the back cover of this book I recall reading and selecting for our...
Read Now11 2025 June
Why Boys Are Falling Behind In School (And How To Fix It)
American schools and kindergarten specifically are not designed for boys … But they should be. That’s the conclusion from a piece in the New York...
Read Now20 2025 May
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Late Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard
From all the “30 under 30” lists to the stories of tech billionaires who made their fortunes in their early 20s it can seem like...
Read Now02 2025 May
Why the Nike Backlash May Be Just the Beginning
When Jennifer and I wrote Beyond Diversity, one of the first things we talked about was blind spots. We knew that there would be things we...
Read Now14 2025 February
The Super Bowl Halftime Show Went Over Many People’s Heads. Here’s What It Meant …
Recently it seems like stories about social media often center on the negative impact of various platforms making it easy to spread misinformation, fuel hate...
Read Now11 2025 February
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Negotiating While Black by Damali Peterman
If you are an avid follower of our Non-Obvious Book Awards program, you might recognize this week’s selection: Negotiating While Black. It was our pick...
Read Now27 2025 January
DEI May Be Dying … But Here’s What Could Replace It
When Jennifer Brown and I first published our book Beyond Diversity in 2021 it was moment of big momentum for DEI. Amongst the many other books published...
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