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.
Big Data: It Depends
Thoughts on the silliness of answering certain data-related questions.
The Folly of the Perfect Prediction
Never conflate the terms better and perfect.
Past ≈ Future?
Thoughts on whether Big Data will result in more accurate forecasts.
When Dataviz Manifests the Obvious
The explosions of data and dataviz are mixed blessings.
Thwart the Trackers
Easily control who sees what you do online.
Cloud Computing Lessons From Apple
Don’t think of cloud computing as a discrete “IT project.”
Publishing, Piketty, and Predictions
Thoughts on our inability to accurately predict.
On Microsoft, Android, and Platform Thinking
Cats and dogs living with each other.
On Lawnmowers and Data Management
Big Data? Don’t forget the small stuff.
Android Fragmentation: A Dataviz on Platform Strategy
An interesting way of manifesting Android’s Wild Wild West.
HBR Webinar: The Visual Organization
60 minutes on the new book and the importance of dataviz.