We’ve got this whole unicorn thing all wrong!
There’s another kind of unicorn: The breakthrough, once remarkable, that becomes taken for granted
Next Economy
We’re charting a course from the tech-driven economy of today to the “next” economy that strikes a better balance between people and automation.
Improving Uber’s surge pricing
Should algorithmic pricing be the norm rather than the exception?
Designing delivery: From industrialism to post-industrialism
In a post-industrial economy, the focus shifts from selling products to helping customers accomplish their goals through service. Excerpt from Jeff Sussna's book, "Designing Delivery."
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.
The WTF Economy
What do on-demand services, AI, and the $15 minimum wage movement have in common?
Flattening organizations
It's easy to talk about eliminating hierarchy; it's much harder to do it effectively.
Innovation Nation – Megan Smith & Tim O’Reilly interview
From Solid Conference 2015: O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly talks to Megan Smith, CTO, United States Government.
Will Planned Obsolescence Kill Silicon Valley?
From Solid Conference 2015: In Detroit’s heyday, automotive manufacturers built generations of vehicles with intentionally limited lifespans to encourage new vehicle purchases on a regular basis. In today’s world of connected hardware, leading vendors like Apple are pursuing similar strategies based on rapid obsolescence.
Life: Sustainable, Programmable, Bottom-Up Manufacturing
The future of manufacturing will be self-assembling products.
The Internet of Things and Humans
The network, new data capabilities, and mobile devices rich in sensors have created fresh and unconventional possibilities to rethink workflows and processes in the real world.
Uber is breaking bad
Uber has built a great service. Why do they feel the need to use dirty tricks to succeed?
The next industrial revolution
It's all about software, but it's a little harder than that.
What Amazon, iTunes, and Uber teach us about Apple Pay
Truly disruptive services don’t just digitize the familiar. They do away with it.
By People, For People
The failure of healthcare.gov was a textbook DevOps (or rather, lack of DevOps) case study. But it’s part of a wider pattern that reminds us that people should be at the heart of everything we build. In fact, getting the “people” part right is the key both to DevOps and great user experience design.
#IoTH: The Internet of Things and Humans
The IoT requires thinking about how humans and things cooperate differently when things get smarter.
The crowdfunding conundrum
Miscalculating funding thresholds can sink your startup.
How I failed
A candid post about some of the things that kept me, my employees, and our company from achieving our full potential.
Overfocus on tech skills could exclude the best candidates for jobs
Is the unemployment problem about a lack of qualified applicants in the workforce?
The Clothesline Paradox and the Sharing Economy
When you put your clothes in the dryer, the energy you use is measured and counted, but when you hang them on the line, they disappear from the measured economy