A polymathic path can ignite creativity but I would suggest that there's a balancing act - it yields the greatest creativity when focused on a truly inspiring opportunity bit.ly/3bYHzrN

What if, instead of clicking on a Zoom link, you put on an AR/VR headset. And rather than stare at co-workers through windows, you interact with their avatars and pass "objects" to one another. That's the vision for Mesh, a new cloud mixed-reality platform bit.ly/31F32QE

Pop music has both literal & figurative Stockholm Syndrome

Mobilizing global ecosystems - Daniel Sunde-Hansen explores the experience of Tyler Crowley on a remote island in Thailand bit.ly/3FCiGhQ

I've long been skeptical of resilience, defined as the psychological capacity to adapt to stressful circumstances and to bounce back from adverse events - here's another contrarian view bit.ly/353czpV

The internet is now so ingrained in most of our lives that it’s easy to forget just how miraculous a technology it is. The fact this miracle is available to more and more of humanity is a cause for huge celebration bit.ly/39rTnDX

What does strategy really mean? Exploring that question in my latest blog post bit.ly/3LFwIVD

What story direction do you prefer?

I dreamed of being a musician when I grew up. Until I realized I couldn’t do both. But on the side, I coded music - despite the many complaining that "electronic music" was an oxymoron. Combining generative AI and my passion, I produced this song for fun open.spotify.com/track/2yig22A2…

"𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧—𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.” The words of my 7-year-old stuck. If kids can appreciate a network distributed role, are we too attached to narratives about the lone, heroic leader?

Could physics answer why millions of Americans fearing losing access to TikTok did not migrate to one of the hundreds of social video platforms in the US, but instead to the Chinese app Xiaohongshu? Bringing an app sharing the name of Mao’s “Little Red Book” to #1 on Apple’s App

A future of AI unplugged? Just weeks after DeepSeek dethroned RedBook as the top app, it exposed over a million lines of sensitive chat data. This reinforces my belief that while AI will be everywhere, it won’t always be online. The future of AI includes choosing what data

I had the honor of being interviewed as an ecosystem innovation for the report «The Ecosystem Surrounding Quantum Technology» report by こんぐすべるぐ. My contribution is reflected in the closing chapter, «Changing the Narrative» - emphasizing John Hagel's argument that we need to

A prominent leader described to me how the future of AI would unfold according to the Hype Cycle. Two years ago, I noticed a post by Tom Goodwin calling the Hype Cycle «useless, wrong, and should be wiped off the planet». I mapped out the similarities between the Hype Cycle

🦋 Is the butterfly effect why AI-content often feels empty? In complex systems, the starting point shapes everything — the infamous butterfly effect. The starting point for generative AI is random numbers. This seed of meaninglessness then cascades throughout the final result.