Monday, December 15, 2025

News and Ideas Worth Sharing

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: 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.

TECH & INNOVATION: Private deals, public consequences

Take-private deals have grown more than tenfold in the last twenty-five years. This trend has dangerous public consequences.

TECH & INNOVATION: Business half-lives

Companies are not lasting nearly as long as they used to.

TECH & INNOVATION: AI and investor influence

Investors demand AI. CEOs and startup entrepreneurs cannot escape.

TECH & INNOVATION: Coevolutionary governance—part 2

Our current institutions, corporations, and governments have not kept pace with changes in the world. They attempt to operate on the old control paradigm instead of on one that ensures that everyone thrives.

TECH & INNOVATION: Coevolutionary governance

Coevolutionary governance means ensuring that as technology develops, society adapts to use it responsibly.

TECH & INNOVATION: Mastermind Groups

The group mind knows more than individual minds.

TECH AND INNOVATION: Augmented humanity

Can AI turn us all into polymaths, and is that what we want?

TECH & INNOVATION: Innovation as a force of convergence

Historically, innovation has been a force of convergence, bringing together people from different fields and nations. It is certainly true today.

TECH & INNOVATION: Improved customer service with AI

ChatGPT listens to what I am requesting, answers the questions, and even remembers the context within which I am asking them.
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