Artificial Intelligence & Digital Ethics
Exploring the ethical, privacy, and human implications of AI in today’s knowledge economy.
- Unavailable in Principle: Understanding Machine Unlearning A deep dive into the emerging field of machine unlearning, examining its technical challenges and the cultural shift toward a “delete culture.”
- Evolution of Intelligent Assistants A reflection on how conversational search and AI-powered assistants are reshaping user interfaces and business applications.
- How AI Tools Can Make Knowledge Workers More Efficient A practical case study using GPT-4’s advanced data analysis to automate and streamline technical workflows.
Digital Strategy & Responsive Delivery
Insights and frameworks for building adaptive digital strategies that respond to rapid change.
- How to Develop a Digital Strategy Part two of an ongoing series outlining a hybrid approach that blends marketing, technology, and product thinking into a cohesive strategy.
- Digital Strategy Starts With Marketing The foundational installment that positions marketing as the beachhead for digital transformation and strategy development.
- Staying Afloat With Content and Social Media Platform Changes
Discussion of the recent churn across major social channels—practical guidance on where (and when) brands should show up and why. - Responsive Delivery: Effective Practices for Digital First Organizations. Originally presented at Searchlove 2014, this article describes Responsibe Delivery as a content-first, continuous-delivery-inspired framework that breaks down silos between marketing and technology teams, enabling digital-first organizations to rapidly iterate and optimize experiences across platforms and channels
Leadership & Creative Insights
Thought leadership on creativity, human-centric leadership, and the future of work.
- Structured Serendipity: 5 Creative Lessons from Iron & Wine Musings on how cultivating loose structure and intentional randomness can spark breakthrough creative ideas.
- When Knowing Isn’t Enough A manifesto on “epistemic grief” and the five modes of human knowing that machines can’t replicate.
- Not Your Parents’ Marketing Org Reflections on architecting hybrid teams where AI handles execution and humans focus on curation, intuition, and emotional intelligence.
- 3 Essential Leadership Skills AI Cannot Replace. True human leadership hinges on three deeply human superpowers—cooperation built on trust and emotional intelligence, delegation as a growth multiplier through empowerment, and the ability to ask the right questions to catalyze vision and strategic insight—none of which AI can authentically replicate
Genealogy & Personal Growth
Personal explorations into family history and life lessons from pivotal moments.
- New Beginnings: Creating the change we want in our lives. How taking one intentional step—like returning to yoga—can catalyze holistic transformation by aligning physical well-being, mindset shifts, and strategic “liminal” living to redefine identity and spark continuous growth.
- Climbing family trees: Research lessons from my personal experience Lessons learned while tracing my Eastern European Jewish ancestry, from surnames to skeletons in the closet.
- Reflecting on Change: Life Lessons from 2024 A reflective look at the personal and professional transformations that shaped my fiftieth year.