NETWORKS CHANGE In the dynamic society that we live in, networks are constantly evolving, constantly updating from chaordic information that we, as individual and non-technologically supported observers, do not have access to. Not being able to see (or foresee) the implications of this data puts us at a disadvantageous position to those who can, and thus the […]
I love learning a new language because it affords me an opportunity to examine my assumptions about what I say, why I say it, and what it actually means. Oftentimes, I can find a way to translate what I’m thinking into another language, but just as often that translation ‘doesn’t quite work’ and I find […]
Last week, IBM, one of the earliest pioneers of a remote worker culture is rolling their innovative policies on remote work back. Thousands of their workers have been asked to return to the office or find a new job. Considering the financial challenges IBM faces, this rollback is seen as a strategy to downsize their worker […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been on a lot of minds, there are hundreds of anecdotes of the wonders and horrors of our machines doing what we can do, but better, faster, and stronger. Organizations of all sorts have been leveraging this futurist anxiety and elevating this issue to a point of dystopia or utopia, depending […]
A few days ago I caught myself pondering over a relatively benign question. My friend and I were enjoying a cup of tea together via Skype, when I responded to her question, “How do you market your business?” with, “I treat every individual like a community of communities.” We were talking about how I manage […]