Friday, July 11, 2025

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Howard Lieberman

Howard Lieberman is a local musician, writer, and lapsed tech guy who moved full-time to the Berkshires ten years ago. An entrepreneur, teacher, and speaker, he previously worked in sound at Bose and Apple, studied acoustics at MIT, and, most recently, composition at Juilliard. Howard is currently at work manifesting blogs and books about innovation, innovators, and innovation relationships. Howard has the good fortune to work mostly in and around world-class innovation cultures, including Apple, Bose, DARPA, MIT, and Juilliard. More information is at HowardL.com

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TECH & INNOVATION Berkshirian CultureTech, Part Two

Fiber changed everything. It allowed the Berkshires to leap from under-wired to hyperconnected, and young professionals are responding—coming here by choice, logging in from here by necessity.

TECH & INNOVATION: “Berkshirian” CultureTech

Berkshirian Tech isn’t a brand. It’s a possibility. It’s what happens when you combine cultural depth with technological fluency, nature with network, soul with signal. The Berkshires could be the Florence of the 21st century. A place where culture and technology don’t compete but cross-pollinate.

TECH & INNOVATION: Artificial intuition

Artificial intuition is about more than fast computation. It's about making what appears to be an intuitive leap, a judgment made with incomplete information, without relying on exhaustive analysis.

TECH & INNOVATION: Liberal Arts in a Digital Age

Context is quietly disappearing. And because it disappears gradually, we don’t always notice until we are standing in a flattened landscape of facts and fragments, unsure of what ties them together.

TECH & INNOVATION: Project starters and finishers

Infinite choices can make it difficult to finish.

TECH & INNOVATION: Co-creating reliability

We must be involved in determining our reality.

TECH & INNOVATION: Navigating distributed resources

We have fewer trusted authorities. We now have to figure things out for ourselves.

TECH & INNOVATION: Random access

We no longer live in a linear world.

TECH & INNOVATION: Fiscally free upgrades

In a world fixated on constant upgrades, we often forget just how powerful the tools already in our hands have become. Sometimes the smartest upgrade isn’t one you buy. It’s one you uncover.

TECH & INNOVATION: Preparing for opportunity

"You have to skate to where the puck will be." - Wayne Gretzky

TECH & INNOVATION: Compound opportunity

This is not a time to play it safe, hoping that conditions will stabilize and return to a recognizable normal. That normal is gone. What lies ahead is different, but it is full of possibility.

TECH & INNOVATION: Crisis Affluence

Crises can cause collapse, but eventually they cause affluence.

TECH & INNOVATION: Acceleration

AI evolves faster than Moore’s Law, and is already dramatically changing our world.

TECH & INNOVATION: Distinctive abundance

This new abundance is not about having more things but embracing originality. It requires a different mindset. Rather than focusing on efficiency, we now seek meaning.

TECH & INNOVATION: Are you tech leveraged?

Are you actively embracing new tech tools for all their worth? If you are not embracing them, you are at a competitive disadvantage to those who are.

TECH & INNOVATION: How invisible gatekeeping stifles innovation

We are transitioning from a world where innovation was judged by human discernment—imperfect as that may have been—to one where innovation is judged by machine pattern recognition. And when pattern recognition becomes the primary filter, we risk entering a self-reinforcing cycle of sameness.
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