Four Things That I’m Thinking About #DesignInTech Designers tend to care about people as people. Instead of just as prospects or customers. Design as a field has evolved to speak more machine, more scale, and more $$$s. A lot of work has been done in the design world to birth a new “aesthetics of ethics.” But it’s…

There are four quotes that have stayed with me for the last 30+ years, that I’m pulling out of the past for the upcoming 2023 #DesignInTech Report on Design and Artificial Intelligence. One is by the late Nobel laureate and CMU AI pioneer Dr. Herbert Simon (1916–2001) who had an…

For anyone who remembers typing TURN OFF LIGHT SWITCH while playing the text-adventure game Zork—instead of typing 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" because there were no programs to run besides the ones you could make yourself—you recall the feeling of being drawn into an alternate universe.

When I was asked if I wanted to be a part of our Mentoring Development Program, I jumped at the opportunity to do so. Because who doesn’t love to be mentored, coached, improved? Although the more senior you get, the more often you find that YOU are the one being…

This is a regular (delayed) re-post of my plaintext #nolinks monthly #ResilienceTech briefing that you can sign up for here 👉 http://eepurl.com/c9OjRX Four Things That I’m Thinking About #ResilienceTech * Modern neuroscience tells us how we store and process information depends upon our emotional state, which easily triggers the “fight or flight” response. Technologies that are designed…

“Come to think of it … I might need that thing I was just about to throw out. Phew!” — me Whenever I visit my 86-year old Mom, she is always showing me something sparkly and new that she’s collected. Or, more recently … because she’s preparing to die ……

When leading where your teams are going, you also need to know whether they’re following. —A Fourth Option for leaders to take As a “maker” of things, I’ve never been a “leading from the front” kind of person and more of a “leading by example” one. But over time I…

Getting Firebase auth to work in Flutter is magical when you know how to do it, but unfortunately if you did it in years prior then you’re not likely to do it the same way today. I keep doing this over and over again when I start a new project…

“Manage by your outbox. Not by your inbox.” —useful advice given to me by President Bacow of Harvard University The morning light was creeping in as I quietly lay in a dorm room bed at Harvard while another college president typed fervently on his Blackberry in the bed next to…