I am much more of a fox than a hedgehog. No, I don’t blog every day, but it’s fair to say that I’m pretty prolific. On this site, you’ll find a boatload of posts on the future of work, higher education, technology, platforms, communication, collaboration, analytics, and other topics. They generally fall into the following buckets: insights, provocations, musings, predictions, and rants. I write more about big ideas than listicles and snackable content. I inject humor often into my posts and freakin’ despise jargon. Click here to see an interactive word cloud and treemap of my posts’ tags.
The Case for Proceeding Without a Data Scientist
Why it may be wise not to wait for one.
Adding New Data Sources: An App-Like Future
What we can learn from the app mind-set.
My Most Popular Posts From 2014
A look at the data from the past year.
Where Platforms and Big Data Collide
Looking at two of the most important concepts in business today.
Building a Platform: Big Data Considerations
Organizations that embrace data and analysis will do far better than those that don’t.
How Platforms Lead to Big Data
The most successful companies today realize that data is critical to their success.
Understanding Contemporary Platforms
How they differ from traditional technology marketplaces like eBay or Craigslist.
Data-Based Design: Ignore at Your Own Peril
Highly technical design is becoming more data-driven, faster, and smarter.
Crowdsourcing Healthcare
Let’s hope that collaboration and innovation like this increasingly become the rule in healthcare.
The Case Against a Data Center of Excellence
Thoughts on a centralized group of data experts.
Dataviz, Design, and the Smaller Screen
With less real estate, simplicity has never been more important.
The Glass Cage
A look at Nick Carr’s new book on automation.
The Myth of the Big Data Switch
People who believe in immediate returns are sorely mistaken.