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Tech in the 413

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.

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.