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TECH & INNOVATION: Short-termism as an executive disease

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

TECH TALK: Harvesting Infinity, Part 2: Awareness

Our conscious rational minds are only aware of a fraction of what our subconscious perceives. That’s why our stream-of-consciousness flow states often yield our highest performance results. AI tools can be used to capture the outputs of our flow states more easily and completely than our rational linear minds can.

TECH TALK: Harvesting Infinity, Part 1: Context

What’s the reason Silicon Valley companies have overtaken the big early East Coast tech companies such as IBM, Remington Rand, Sperry Rand, RCA, Burroughs, and Honeywell? The author credits their success to the mindset of abundance.

TECH TALK: AI–Provocateur of positive change

Technological advances can be stressful, but there’s a way to look on the bright side. Stress can be good for you, and your attitude can make a difference.

TECH TALK: Communication, Part 3—Those pesky file formats

For anyone who has to send content files—images, movies, sounds, and links—to collaborators, this column is a muist-read.

TECH TALK: Communication, Part 2—What to do about it

Continuing his discussion of the current communications environment, Howard points out that it's not the act that you can comunicate that matters but whether you can communicate well and effectively.

TECH TALK: Communication, Part 1 —transparency, privacy, sensitivity and speed

AI is reshaping communication by providing new platforms and tools that enhance our ability to convey information quickly and efficiently. This shift is not just about speed; it's also about the depth and quality of interactions.

TECH TALK: Directivity Drawing

Drawing helps me see connections and dependencies that often get lost in translation when using mere words, which tend to start at the top of the page and go from left to right and top to bottom. Diagrams have no such constraints.

TECH TALK: Layering tools

Smartphones, with their advanced capabilities and high cost, are not just a present-day phenomenon. They are poised to play a significant role in the future.

TECH TALK: Using AI to improve your writing

Here’s how to use software to proof and edit your writing.

TECH TALK: How you can start using AI

What to try using Artificial Intelligence? Here’s a quick introduction to four ways you can start.

TECH TALK: Distillation Tools

It’s helpful to use software to distill your ideas, but important to choose software that will keep your notes safe as technology changes.

TECH TALK: Creating value in your own “MeaningPlace”

When you're in the creative zone, achieving the impossible seems perfectly feasible. But it is important to understand that moving your creative product to reality involves a further three-step process.

TECH TALK: Harvesting infinity

The speed of adoption of AI seems to be unprecedented. A year ago, almost no one was talking about AI; now, awareness is high, but many people are more afraid than excited. I think this technology will be a vehicle through which humanity can “harvest infinity.”

TECH TALK: Auxiliary brains

We all have too much to keep track of. There are incredible tools to help with that.They vary wildly in cost from free to quite expensive, are designed for very different kinds of people, and are not always simple to use.

TECH TALK: Read the fine print

A new marketplace may require you to start using new tools to track relationships. Here are some explanations.

TECH TALK: You need to deal with the downside of tech democratization

If fear of technology causes us to surrender personal power and freedom to autocrats, it will be difficult to claw our way back. Hey, it happened before and was called the Dark Ages. And then it took centuries before there was a Renaissance.