Whether they’re true believers or sinister liars, some American politicians are advocating a return to business practices that risk doing harm to the country and world. Their argument is that there’s a vague, loosely organized plot to impose things called “woke” on the virtuous freedoms of their constituents. It’s an…

Disney’s plans for a huge cost-cutting initiative say at least two things about American businesses today: Corporate Purpose Is A Sham The company will fire 7,000 people, or about 3% of its workforce, as well as strive for $2.5 billion in annual savings from “non-content” operations…which is code for replacing…

I just learned about a book of sci-fi shorts based on the real science underway at CERN, the experimental physics lab in Switzerland. What an incredibly brilliant idea! The collection, entitled Collision, features 13 stories written by sci-fi writers who were matched with CERN scientists to explore the speculative implications…

Rolls-Royce’s new CEO told his employees that the company is a “burning platform” and that they should be prepared for an aggressive efficiency and optimization program (i.e. job cuts). Why? “Every investment we make, we destroy value,” he explained, according to news reports of his recent global broadcast to staff. …

Earlier this year, I composed and recorded an album based on John Milton’s Paradise Lost. My goal was to “unlock” simple and impactful ideas and images from the 10,000+ lines of poetry and share them in 3-minute rock songs. I borrowed the text verbatim. The music is my own. Now, I’m going to perform the songs live in a one-time concert on Tuesday, February 28th, at a club just outside Chicago called SPACE. I’ll be surrounded by wildly talented musicians who will take the music to places I could not have imagined, let alone reached. I am sure Milton will be proud.

Twitter’s co-founder has come to regret his efforts to manage conversations because “absolute transparency” is the right thing for the Internet and society. His rationale is that governments and corporations want to “shape and control the public conversation” and therefore any content produced by someone should be permanently available to…

As advances in artificial intelligence continue apace, a chorus of technology apologists tell us not to worry. …

The fact that technology is changing the jobs landscape is nothing new, and government and social norms have learned to moderate the sharpest edges of such changes in the past…as well as adapt to them. It’s different this time. The scope of the change is far more massive and, by…

I was struck by Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Bankman-Fried’s recent mea culpas for driving their respective companies into the ground, like it was sincere or that it mattered. Zuckerberg’s apology came as he took away salaries and benefits for 11,000 people, after having wasted $15 billion on a bad business…