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We have entered the era of hubs and spokes.
Posts Tagged as: The Age of the Platform
Posts Tagged as: The Age of the Platform
Thoughts on Twitter and Section 230
Kudos to the company for its principled stance.
Slack and Change Management
Thoughts on why it’s essential to overcome employee resistance.
Don’t Be Evil by Rana Foroohar
Has Big Tech become too powerful? Hell yes.
Summer Reading
Being able to regularly feed my brain is a nice perk of professor life.
Thoughts on Facebook’s Stock Drop
Where does the world’s largest social network go from here?
Courses I Would Love to Teach
If I could wave my magic wand …
What if Facebook had charged its users?
Would the company find itself in its current predicament?
How I Use Slack Inside of the Classroom
Adventures in the collaboration tool that has taken the world by storm.
Expectations for Analytics: The Agile Way
Thoughts on the new book.
Platform Lessons From Microsoft’s Smartphone Surrender
Thoughts on first-mover advantage.
The Explosion of Platform Books
Platforms matter more than ever, and that isn’t changing anytime soon.
What I Learned Writing for Inc.
Lessons from my year as a scribe at an über-popular site.
Using Dataviz to Spruce Up Blog Posts
Thoughts on answering readers’ questions via interactive data visualizations.
As a Matter of Fact, the NFL Is Not a Platform
To claim otherwise is absurd.
Twitter’s Platform Problem
The company has violated the second rule of platforms: Cherish developers. Don’t piss them off.