Machine money and people money
A conversation about Universal Basic Income with John Maynard Keynes and Paul Buchheit.
Commentary
Independent perspectives on the state of business and technology.
Technology and business as if people matter
Announcing the second annual Next:Economy Summit.
“This is strictly a business decision”
We have to stop telling ourselves that we are forced by the market to outsource jobs—we have a choice.
Learning from AlphaGo
If there's anything humans should learn from AlphaGo, it's that our survival depends on constantly looking at the data.
What passes for sharing these days
The "sharing economy" has nothing at all to do with sharing.
6 things to look for in Next:Economy companies
How to spot a Next:Economy company.
The artist in the age of online media
A lot of young artists are building brand equity and audience, but fame doesn't equal money and you can't eat brand equity.
P-values not quite considered harmful
The crisis of reproducibility is an opportunity to get better at doing science.
Programming, oaths, and users
The Programmer's Oath is missing one essential element: the customer.
Escaping the superstar syndrome
Sports show us the impact a superstar can have on the success of a team. But it's the team with the most superstars that wins.
Do one thing…
I don't want barely distinguishable tools that are mediocre at everything; I want tools that do one thing and do it well.
Building an automated future
Our fears of automation aren’t due to problems of artificial intelligence, but of human intelligence.
We’ve got this whole unicorn thing all wrong!
There’s another kind of unicorn: The breakthrough, once remarkable, that becomes taken for granted
Improving Uber’s surge pricing
Should algorithmic pricing be the norm rather than the exception?
How on-demand logistics could save brick and mortar retail
Retailers face another existential threat.
Amazon, boredom, and culture
Corporate leadership is as much about building people as it is about developing product.
A world of continous partial employment
Managers and workers benefit when both have access to data and control.
The rise of networked platforms for physical world services
A look at the economic shift led by software and connectedness.