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2 min read 2020-04-30 10:10:56

Zoom Is YouTube, Instagram, and WhatsApp – All in Two Months.

If you’ve read Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism, you likely agree that the most important asset for a data-driven advertising platform

7 min read 2020-01-06 09:52:58

A new year brings another run at my annual predictions: For 17 years now, I’ve taken a few hours to imagine what might happen over the course of

1 min read 2019-01-03 01:01:49

If predictions are like baseball, I’m bound to have a bad year in 2019, given how well things went the last time around. And given how my own

1 min read 2018-12-06 13:31:00

So yes, I am planning on going to China on Saturday. My first time, I’m a bit embarrassed to say. It’s not for a lack of opportunities, but

1 min read 2018-11-27 21:17:45

Mark Zuckerberg is in a crisis of leadership. Will he grasp its opportunity? Happier times. It seems like an eternity, but about one year ago this

1 min read 2018-11-13 06:02:06

Detail from the cover of Harari’s lastest work, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. A year and a half ago I reviewed Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus,

1 min read 2018-11-06 00:36:20

But…I just *bought* a robe. I don’t want another one. If you’re read my rants for long enough, you know I’m fond of programmatic advertising.

1 min read 2018-11-01 03:07:01

Gramercy Tavern in New York City If Walmart can leverage data tokens to lure Amazon’s best customers away, what else is possible in a world of

1 min read 2018-10-24 18:39:41

A scenario from the future (cross posted from NewCo Shift) In my last post I imagined a world in which large data-driven platforms like Amazon,

1 min read 2018-10-22 09:36:10

(image) Social conversations about difficult and complex topics have arcs – they tend to start scattered, with many threads and potential paths,

1 min read 2018-10-17 21:20:27

The last 24 hours have not been kind to Facebook’s already bruised image. Above are four headlines, all of which clogged my inbox as I cleared

1 min read 2018-10-10 20:44:36

Yesterday, I lost it over a hangnail and a two-dollar bottle of hydrogen peroxide. You know when a hangnail gets angry, and a tiny red ball of pain

1 min read 2018-09-24 23:16:33

Or, Will Nature Just Shrug Its Shoulders? If you pull far enough back from the day to day debate over technology’s impact on society – far

1 min read 2018-09-20 10:26:39

So far, it’s mostly shit. Seven or so years ago, a famous VC penned a manifesto of sorts. Writing at a time the world was still skeptical of the

1 min read 2018-08-29 00:32:13

Next week Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, will testify in front of Congress. They must take this opportunity to