25 2026 March
Meta and Amazon Both Prove in the Same Week That Tech Company Greed May Have Some Limits
Last week, three seemingly unrelated stories offered a glimpse into a perhaps hopeful version of reality. After losing over $84 billion dollars, Meta finally shut down...
Read Now08 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...
Read Now10 2025 November
Adobe Is Rolling Out Emotion Mixers Where AI Can Shift the Tone of Voice Overs
At the Adobe MAX Creative event last week, WIRED reported on several enhancements to audio editing that are likely to be coming soon inside of Adobe products....
Read Now29 2025 August
How “Dumbification” May Be the Next Hot Technology Trend
What happens when all the good TVs that you can buy in the market are automatically programed as “smart” TVs, ready to connect to the...
Read Now18 2025 July
7 Tips for Making Your Website Non-Obvious (and Interesting)
Updating a website is one of my least favorite things to do as an entrepreneur. It just takes so much time. But if you’ve ever...
Read Now22 2025 April
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
It is perhaps odd to describe a book as both timely and urgent when it was first published more than 15 years ago … but...
Read Now18 2025 April
3 Powerful Talks from TED This Week That Are Already Available Live to Watch
The TED conference took place this past week and some of the talks have already been released. While most of the year the TED social...
Read Now13 2025 January
The Hottest Innovations and Tech from CES 2025 — Insights from the Ground
I’m very tempted to put together a “best innovations” list from the world’s largest tech trade show. I did one last year and I know...
Read Now29 2024 November
Short Form Video Is Back and It Might Actually Have Been a Great Idea After All
Four years ago, with much fanfare (and budget), a platform called Quibi emerged with the promise that people would watch short vertical episodic shows and...
Read Now27 2024 February
How AI Might Be Getting “Lazier” And What to Do About It
What if you had to “convince” ChatGPT to give you a better or more in-depth answer? Some users are suggesting a “winter break hypothesis” to explain...
Read Now17 2024 February
Perplexity.ai and Testing the Future of AI Generated Search Results
Tech commentator Shelly Palmer offered a ringing endorsement of a new AI extension that can replace Google search called Perplexity.ai and so I decided to give it a try....
Read Now09 2024 February
The Dreaded 404 Page and Its Little Understood Cousin: The 402 Error
Did you know that back in the earliest days of the Internet, there were a list of error codes created for situations that the web’s...
Read Now19 2023 September
The Creator of the Greatest Software Ever Invented Just Died
Dennis Austin just died and I feel like he deserves a bit of a tribute. Maybe even a parade. He’s the co-inventor, along with Michael Gaskins,...
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