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TECH & INNOVATION: Short-termism as an executive disease

America’s time horizon problem is impacting competitiveness in the decade.

TECH & INNOVATION: When unsustainable systems collapse

When collapse comes, renewal follows and each time it comes faster and faster.

TECH & INNOVATION: Short attention spans

Creators create meaning for themselves by sticking with projects longer. Consumers with short attention spans pursue instant gratification. t

TECH & INNOVATION: Broadcasting learning, streaming culture

Culture is no longer bound by walls or geography. Streaming and community broadcasting together create a hybrid model that connects the local and the global, transforming concerts, galleries, and classrooms into shared experiences that both educate and inspire.

TECH & INNOVATION: Deeper structures

While melodies, like individual voices, capture our attention, it's the underlying harmonic progressions that create lasting impact and infinite possibilities in music, leadership, innovation, and society.

TECH & INNOVATION: Tools of freedom, walls of power

Wealth, influence, and decision-making power are concentrating faster than ever in a smaller number of companies, platforms, and individuals. This is not just a tech story. It is a shift that affects markets, politics, and daily life.

TECH & INNOVATION: Innovation diplomacy

Why the rules of innovation apply to diplomacy.

TECH & INNOVATION: Uncertainty opportunity

Why great change always unleashes great opportunity.

TECH & INNOVATION: The Irreplaceables

Why the future belongs to those of us who display the most human skills and characteristics

TECH & INNOVATION: Guide on the side

We need a new model for a world of "overchoice."

TECH & INNOVATION: Job security in the face of AI

People who learn to leverage AI to increase their productivity will be safe.

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.