NewCo Shift

What It’s Like to Be A Woman On the Internet

A follow-up to the mystery of Tee Medlin, and “What It’s Like to Be a Woman at a Tech Conference”

Where Did all The Managers Go?

The world could be a better place if only we knew when to scrap useless vocabulary and jettison antiquated ideas…

The Anti-Network Effect

As social media platforms grow stronger they grow weaker too. This will eventually open the way for a meaningful alternative to Facebook.

Predictions 2019: Climate, Tech, Trump, Facebook, and…Weed.

If predictions are like baseball, I’m bound to have a bad year in 2019, given how well things went the last time around. And given how my…

A.I. Will Kill Social Media As We Know It

The way Open.ai released the results of their recent research was meant to freak us out, and it worked. The A.I. Text Generator That’s Too…

Post-blockchain Smart Contracts Creating a New Firm

The new cryptocurrencies and post-blockchain smart contracts make it possible to leave behind the simplistic finance model of the…

Using Privacy as a Shield, Facebook May Well Conquer the Entire Internet.

I’ll never forget a meal I had with a senior executive at Facebook many years ago, back when I was just starting to question the motives…

You’re Doing What?!

Why politics, why now.

Introducing Recount Media

More than a few of you have been wondering why I’ve been so quiet here these past few months, and today I can finally reveal at least part…

Six Months In….Are My Predictions Coming True?

I like to keep myself honest when it comes to predictions. Now that six months of 2019 are in the books (well, nearly seven given how…

China’s Tencent Leapfrogged the Upfronts

This story was orginally published at Mediapost.

Facebook stock is down 9 cents.

On the point of whether vagueness can save time/slow you down, I believe it depends on the…