PHIL SIMON
Media Mentions
Featured articles, interviews, and stories.
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Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Below you’ll find some of my most prominent placements, thought pieces, and mentions.
- TechTalk Podcast: 12.29.2011 (My segment is on The Age of the Platform).
- TechTalk Podcast: 01.05.2011 (My segment is on The New Small.)
- TechTalk Podcast: 05.19.2010 (My segment is on The Next Wave of Technologies.)
- The one and only Ron Charles talked to me about Zoom For Dummies for his newsletter. Yeah, that happened.
- Leigh Kamping-Carder quoted me in her newsletter about COVID-19 and collaboration
- The 10-Point Newsletter quoted me about Arizona’s incidence of coronavirus and the governor’s preposterous inaction
- It has picked up a few of my Inc. articles
- Running Class Discussions on Divisive Topics Is Tricky. Here Is One Promising Approach
- Not Just for Video Games: Virtual Reality Joins the Classroom
- One Way to Fight Digital Distraction
- One Way to Fight Fake News
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- ABC News: Could You Be the Next Self-Published Star?
- Adweek
- American Express Open Forum
- AZ Republic
- Baseline Magazine
- The Baylor Business Review piece on the social customer
- Blick piece on Facebook’s market capitalization
- The Boston Globe: Should Twitter censure presidential tweets? ($)
- BrandWatch interview on The Visual Organization
- Business Insider
- CBC: Won’t tolerate ‘callous’ workplace practices, Amazon’s Bezos says
- CBS MoneyWatch: Waymo’s self-driving cars have faced slashed tires, thrown rocks
- Chicago Tribune
- CNN: Article on Big Data
- ComputerWorld: The semantic Web gets down to business
- The Chronicle has linked to a bunch of my posts on education
- Diginomica interview with Brian Sommer
- Fast Company
- The Age of the Platform piece
- Here’s how workers at companies like Accenture and Walmart are using virtual reality
- We still need conference rooms. Here’s what they should look like post-pandemic.
- 3 Steps to Curing Your Email Addiction
- What oddly shaped conference room tables tell us about the future of work
- Forbes
- Fortune
- Fox
- Fox (Phoenix Affiliate) piece on the techlash.
- Fox News story on TV and Big Data.
- Fox News piece on Uber and whether it’s fair to drivers
- The Globe and Mail
- Huffington Post
- Idea Mensch Interview
- InformationWeek mentions me and runs my pieces from time to time. The site has also interviewed me.
- Investor’s Business Daily
- Inc. Magazine
- IT Business Edge has referenced my work a bunch of times, including this one.
- Korean Broadcasting System’s documentary show The World Today.
- Lifehacker: The ‘3-email rule’ is the key to solving the biggest problem with your inbox
- LifeWire
- The National Post: Boycott Amazon if you want — but don’t expect it to work
- NBC
- Newsweek: Locals are attacking Waymo self-driving cars being tested in Arizona
- NY Post: It’s your own fault you get work emails 24/7
- PC Mag: Get Ready for New Workplace Injury Reporting Regulations
- PC World quotes one of my posts in its piece “Why analytics is eating the world”
- Quartz: E-mail lets other people schedule your life—here’s how to stop it
- ReadWrite (Link to Archive page. The site seems to have been retired or ported to ReadWrite.com.)
- Slack: How ASU powers the modern learning experience with Slack
- Software Test and Performance Magazine: Article on Consulting Types
- Technorati (For some reason, the site recently removed the links. Good thing that they’re here too.)
- TheStreet.com article on the rise of crowdfunding (behind paywall)
- VentureBeat: Your platform might determine your startup’s success — so why not build your own
- Waters Technology article on Why New Systems Fail
- I have written a bunch of posts for Wired. Read them here
- Yahoo!
- Smallbiz story on Message Not Received
- Big Data story referencing Too Big to Ignore
- ZDNet