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2024 Year in Review: Surprising ways human ingenuity thrives through inflections

Escaping the outrage machine – Is Bluesky becoming a thing?

“It’s as though the Albanian army was going to take over the world”

How powerful women outsmart conventional fashion design

Are you a hammer or a nail? Insights from Princeton’s Keller Center Innovation Day

A bright spot on the leadership development horizon

We say we want adaptive behavior but we reward other things…

Transient advantage isn’t going away – how AI can help with inevitable inflection points

The Perils of Great Success

Choice architecture makes its way into anti-trust: Google Ruling

Maybe Brat Summer is what a lot of us need right now

More than money – how do you design incentive systems that drive behavior?

Why even great predictions don’t create great solutions

The seesaw of corporate succession – a “time zero” event

June sure was busting out all over!

Discovering the Human Future of Work – Virtual Event Notes & an invitation to join in the fun

You Asked, We Answered: Questions from my live Coaching.com session

Bubble Bubble, Toil & Trouble and Some Brewing (see what I did there?) Inflection Points

Will AI do to expert professions what the Model T did to railroads?

What the world needs now… is love and AI?

Revisiting the baby bust: Is “The Children of Men” prophetic?

Just add water? The fascinating prospect of “instant intimacy.”

Thought Sparks Wrap Up -- April 2024

Digital Slime, the Dead Internet, and Cory Doctorow’s great phrase

If it acts like a bubble, and sounds like a bubble, when will we realize it’s a bubble?

If you want a guarantee, buy a refrigerator!

Welcome to the world, SparcHub!

When you miscalculate the value of brands – a rare cautionary tale from Warren Buffett

Beyond the doomscrolling – movement building for positive change

The Drugs Have Won and the Smart Money Knows It (credit to Jake Novak for this great line)

February 2024-Round Up

An Artist, An Author and an Inventor Go Into a Bar…

Could you benefit from Belonging to a Peer-to-Peer Network?

Why are so few people talking about the massive wealth transfer to women?

January 2024-Round Up

Our lizard lateral brains and the exponential world we’re confronting

Anticipating today’s smart devices – in 1999!

Fighting Back against the algorithms – Community and the redemption of Taylorism?

An inflection point comes for Pharmaceutical Companies

2023: The Year of Living Cautiously