Speed tells you how fast you’re moving… it doesn’t tell you if you’re moving toward anything worth having. And maybe
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Speed Is Not The Problem… Speed Is Not Your Moat
Things are moving fast… faster… but what if speed is now the baseline, and we just have to accept that
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When Brand Becomes Business Infrastructure
What makes this different? What makes me care? What connects me to it? What keeps me engaged with it after
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The CD Is Back… But Not For The Music
CDs are back… which is weird… in a “vinyl was cool”… cassettes less so kind of way… Vinyl? I get
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How To Be The Guest Every Podcast Wants
You can spend years developing an idea, months writing a book and months working with (and paying) a PR firm
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What If Data Is Just How We Make Ourselves Feel Better?
The more we know… the better decisions we should make. Does that land with you? A significant portion of the
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What Work Should Stay Human?
Thinking that maybe the whole “which jobs will AI replace” has been the wrong question. Reasonable? Sure. Maybe the obvious
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What Happens When You Did Everything Right… And The Future Changes Everything?
I was speaking at a private corporate event last week and during the Q&A session a senior executive pointed out
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AI Is Making Attention Cheap… So What Becomes Valuable?
Marketing has an attention problem (again). Not because attention is disappearing. Because we built an entire industry around the belief
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Navigating Future Shock With Fredric Marshall – This Week’s Thinking With Mitch Joel Conversation
Episode #1050 of Thinking With Mitch Joel is now live. This conversation with Fredric Marshall gets into a feeling that
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Navigating Future Shock With Fredric Marshall – TWMJ #1050
Welcome to episode #1050 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation). Fredric Marshall has spent decades helping
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The AI Closet
What’s the old joke about sex in high school? Everyone is talking about it… but nobody is doing it. Is
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What Happens When AI’s Average Is Better Than Your Best?
The average is getting really good… often better than what we’d previously define as average. Not perfect… not brilliant… not
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We Trained People To Work Like Machines… Then We Built The Machines
Question: Do you think we spent too many decades training humans to work like machines… so we, kinda, dug this
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When Productivity Becomes Surveillance (Thanks, AI)
Something tells me that this is going to become a very contentious topic that is going to tweak how many
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Why Are We More Honest With Machines Than People?
I’ve searched for information about something deeply personal in a search engine that I would not share with a close
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Personalization Is Not Intimacy
As a kid I thought it was so cool to see my name in a book. I also realized that
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The Real Evolution Of Work Slop
Work slop is a huge mess and problem for most people who work in an office. It’s bad stuff. It’s
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What Happens If ‘AI’ Becomes An Insult?
Young people lead all technology revolutions… including this AI one… right? They are digital natives… they grew up with smartphones,
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The Most Dangerous Idea In Business Right Now
I’ve been far too negative (or a tinge cynical) with certain business perspectives I’ve held more recently. Worse, I didn’t
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What Happens When We Prefer The AI Voice?
When Generative AI first appeared, most people thought that AI could never generate something creative… …then the conversation shifted to
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