Smart speakers in the home are, officially, a thing. Before you roll your eyes, not all tech hardware is a guaranteed success. If you think that you can text me from your Amazon Fire phone. What I mean is, the numbers are in – and… Read More »Smart Speakers, Smart Voice … Smart Marketing with Jason Snook
This week we’re getting a little outside of this show’s brief. Again. There’s no real tech angle, unless you count the crude animations mentioned. And there’s no real economic effect, although when a creative AND enterprise project has been going for 50 years, that’s something… Read More »50 Years of Monty Python’s Perfect Silliness with David Morgan Part 1
This week we’re getting a little outside of this show’s brief. Again. There’s no real tech angle, unless you count the crude animations mentioned. And there’s no real economic effect, although when a creative AND enterprise project has been going for 50 years, that’s something… Read More »50 Years of Monty Python’s Perfect Silliness with David Morgan Part 2
What was once a relatively placid part of the global economy is now a roiling cauldron of contention and unilateral gamesmanship: international trade. Whether it’s the United States versus China, or the US versus the European Union, or the Trans Pacific Partnership or the prospect… Read More »Don’t Sleep on the EU’s Role in US Economy with David O’Sullivan
This week, a Silicon Valley veteran investor – an insider – a near-legend in the venture capital world has published a memoir, that also serves as a warning about a company he helped thrive: Facebook. Roger McNamee has decades of VC experience. And he sees… Read More »What Hath Facebook Wrought? An Early Investor’s Revelation with Roger McNamee
Introverts face unique challenges in the workplace: while they tend to be keen observers, good listeners and have intense focus, they think before they speak. And in some corporate cultures that can leave an introvert feeling like road kill during a raucous meeting with extroverts.… Read More »Thriving at Work as an Introvert with Jane Finkle
A friend of mine once advised that the best gift-giving pattern for a significant other was to alternate between jewelry and consumer electronics. I’ve stuck to it ever since. BUT, what to do when it’s a child? Kids are drawn to tech for the same… Read More »Helping Kids Use Tech as a Constructive Tool with Sara DeWitt
Usually it’s the role of a startup to disrupt whatever industry their idea can disrupt. But with a proper set of tools – and direction and idea – an incumbent business can beat would-be disruptors to the punch. We hear about blockchain technology changing the… Read More »Virtual Took Kit for Existing Business Seeking Startup ‘Tude with Waleed Nasir
I almost don’t know where to start scripting for this week’s show. The nut graf is that it’s the 20th anniversary of a foundational, institutional, hilarious and much-needed website known as Fark dot com. If you don’t know it by name, you know it by… Read More »Farked: Internet’s Best Time-Suck Turns 20 Years Old with Drew Curtis
If, and only if, the war for top tier talent ever cools off in the Bay Area it will be because other areas of the country have been able to lure away said top tier talent. And some new numbers are creeping up from a… Read More »Workers Willing to Split for Gigs Outside the Bay Area with Heather Johnston
