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• Business & Strategy

Dmitry Grozoubinski has spent his career making trade legible to people who aren’t trade experts. When I asked him what people are experiencing as...

• Business & Strategy

Last week, a video clip went viral not because of what it showed, but because people couldn’t agree whether it was real. The arguments...

• Business & Strategy

The dispute between Anthropic and the Department of Defense isn’t primarily a story about one company and one contract. It’s a live-fire exercise in...

• Events & Speaking

I have a confession about speaking. When people ask, as they occasionally do, why I became a speaker, what drew me to the profession...

• Culture & Humanity

When we talk about business strategy, we’re constantly drawing from the language of sight. We seek vision. We pursue clarity. And we value insight...

• Culture & Humanity

The ChatGPT Caricature Challenge has that familiar viral momentum. Upload a photo, get an AI-generated cartoon version back, share it with friends. Harmless fun,...

• Written Insights

Last night, I stood in a room full of people celebrating books—human-authored books—at the Porchlight Business Book Awards ceremony. My book What Matters Next...

• Written Insights

Today, as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, it’s worth sitting with an uncomfortable truth: things feel hard right now. Not just...

• Culture & Humanity

I deleted my X account this weekend. This post is not about that decision. But it’s not not about that decision either. It’s about...

• Human Experience

McDonald's Netherlands faced backlash after pulling an AI-generated Christmas ad, highlighting a gap between AI output and consumer expectations for authenticity. Research indicates AI-produced...

• Events & Speaking

The most important question about AI isn’t whether it works—it’s whether it understands what matters. And whether we do. I’m excited to share my...