I write on Substack about where technology meets humanity. Topics include creativity, generative AI, and how they impact business and humanity.
My latest writing is on Substack. Browse or search 2019 archive below.
Or jump in the way-back machine and check out my first blog from 2007. It still lives on!
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2023
- Jan 25, 2023 How Writing Helps You Build a Personal Social Hive Mind Supercomputer
- Jan 17, 2023 Checklist Culture Change
- Jan 1, 2023 Substack for Good
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2022
- Dec 23, 2022 Why Leaders Should Smell Like Dogs
- Dec 3, 2022 5 Habits of Companies That Make Working With Data a Team Sport
- Nov 22, 2022 How Do You Define Creativity?
- Nov 17, 2022 How to Get Executives on Board with Data Visualization
- Nov 10, 2022 The Role of Data Literacy in Building a New Middle Class
- Nov 1, 2022 What is the Gateway Drug to Data Visualization?
- Oct 25, 2022 Non-Obvious Jobs for Data Science Graduates: Data Humanists
- Oct 17, 2022 How to Learn New Skills (the Video)
- Oct 12, 2022 Start with the Hero, Not the Story
- Oct 5, 2022 How to Read and Retain More
- Sep 29, 2022 Quietly Quitting? How About a Savvy Switch Instead?
- Sep 23, 2022 The Business Value of Data Visualization
- Sep 19, 2022 Dolphin Analytics
- Sep 19, 2022 How To Learn New Skills
- Sep 12, 2022 How To Prepare Faster For Looming AI Regulation: Turn Defense Into Offense
- Sep 10, 2022 DS4A Call for Mentors!
- Aug 31, 2022 Today is My Last Day at TIBCO!
- Aug 25, 2022 AI Regulation 101
- Aug 16, 2022 The Future of MOD-ifiable Software
- Aug 8, 2022 A Fool with an AI Tool is Still a Fool
- Aug 1, 2022 Dataiku & ModelOps
- Jul 30, 2022 How to Leave a Job
- Jul 23, 2022 AI Done Right. A Case Study
- Jul 18, 2022 How to Query the Future
- Jul 13, 2022 Introducing Spotfire Actions!
- Jun 30, 2022 The 50X Innovation Axiom
- Jun 25, 2022 Three Steps to Use Streaming Data for Continuous Learning and Action
- Jun 17, 2022 Laugh Now, But is AI in Charge?
- Jun 11, 2022 Leaders: Find Your Contagious Positive Energy
- Jun 6, 2022 12 Signs of an Egotistical Leader and What To Do When You Encounter One
- Jun 2, 2022 9 (Surprising) Tips for Making Your First Data Science Hires EBOOK
- May 25, 2022 Work Sparks Joy, Not Leisure.
- May 20, 2022 Stained Glass Goals
- May 14, 2022 Don't Just Aspire, Inspire
- May 7, 2022 To Be More Effective with Data Science, Hire Fewer Data Scientists
- Apr 25, 2022 Designing with Data and Code
- Apr 16, 2022 You Never Step in the Same River Twice
- Apr 16, 2022 Nonwriters
- Apr 7, 2022 Mission Not Money
- Apr 3, 2022 12 Small Examples of Big Leadership From Duke’s Coach K
- Mar 29, 2022 Great visualizations tell a story in a flash
- Mar 19, 2022 Succeed With Networks, Not Hierarchy
- Mar 12, 2022 Why (and How) You Should Keep a Data Science Journal
- Mar 5, 2022 Why Data Science Literacy is the New MBA
- Feb 25, 2022 Choose Alive Time Over Dead Time
- Feb 19, 2022 Hire Humility and Hustle
- Feb 12, 2022 Twelve Things to Know About Finding a Mentor
- Feb 5, 2022 Data is the Light, Not the Way: Here’s How to Illuminate Every Path
- Jan 24, 2022 Eleven Steps to Becoming a CEO
- Jan 23, 2022 How to Build a Data Science Team: Get a Data Dog
- Jan 16, 2022 Want Better Data Science? Hire Humanists
- Jan 6, 2022 Cancer is Love
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2021
- Dec 30, 2021 The Modern Art of Job Searching
- Dec 24, 2021 The Data of Happiness
- Dec 20, 2021 Slow Down If You Want to Be Someone With Something to Say
- Dec 16, 2021 In-Person Meetings Matter. A Lot.
- Dec 7, 2021 8 Mistakes Leaders Are Making with Data Science and How to Fix Them
- Dec 4, 2021 Simple Ideas Are Best
- Nov 27, 2021 Italy’s Smart Infrastructure and What We Can Learn From It
- Nov 20, 2021 Attitudes Towards AI
- Nov 13, 2021 Formulate More. Solve Less.
- Nov 6, 2021 Aptitude Testing: The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Career You’ve Never Heard Of
- Oct 30, 2021 Effective Mentors Shut Up and Listen
- Oct 25, 2021 Banksy on Artificial Intelligence
- Oct 21, 2021 Explore Data Until You Surprise Yourself
- Oct 20, 2021 #DataScienceMentorChallenge
- Oct 11, 2021 Singapore’s AI-Driven Healthcare
- Oct 5, 2021 A Food Nutrition Datathon For Good
- Sep 29, 2021 Seven Steps To Reduce AI Bias
- Sep 12, 2021 Seven Mistakes You’re Making As You Build a Data Science Team
- Sep 9, 2021 Don’t Guess About the Future. Simulate It.
- Aug 29, 2021 Six Pandemic Trends That Will Stick
- Aug 25, 2021 When the Best Insight is No Insight
- Aug 19, 2021 Learn Like a Dolphin
- Aug 9, 2021 11 Lessons From 11-Year-Old Change Advocate Adam El Rafey
- Aug 2, 2021 The “Great Resignation” Isn’t About You; It’s About the Future of Work
- Jul 25, 2021 How to See Flow in Your Data
- Jul 17, 2021 Do You Need an Empathy Lab?
- Jul 10, 2021 Bye-Bye, AI for AI
- Jul 3, 2021 On Data Centralization Disease and Data Fabrics
- Jun 22, 2021 Seasonality at the Speed of Thought
- Jun 18, 2021 Decentralized Centers of Excellence
- Jun 12, 2021 Green-to-Tee Career Strategy
- Jun 2, 2021 The Intrapreneuring Manifesto
- May 25, 2021 The Crazy-Cool Box-olin Chart
- May 22, 2021 Be Decision-Driven Not Data-Driven: Q&A
- May 12, 2021 Be Decision-Driven Not Data-Driven
- May 10, 2021 The Digital Adaptation Layer
- May 5, 2021 Pixar-Perfect Analytics
- May 3, 2021 Uber Eats for Data Science (ModelOps)
- Apr 28, 2021 Why You Might Need a Data Science Therapist
- Apr 26, 2021 Reverse Mentoring
- Apr 22, 2021 Gaming Mods Come to Analytics
- Apr 19, 2021 Animated Visual Analytics
- Apr 14, 2021 Micro Tours of Duty
- Apr 12, 2021 Data Science Tour of Duty
- Apr 8, 2021 A Data Science Evangelist Career Path
- Mar 31, 2021 Visualizing Cassie Kozyrkov’s Guide to Data Science Teams
- Mar 29, 2021 Data Science Halo Bias
- Mar 24, 2021 Why Subtraction Might Be the Best Data Science Algorithm in Your Bag
- Mar 22, 2021 Avoid Dancing Bears
- Mar 17, 2021 How to Build a Data Science Team
- Mar 15, 2021 Composable Analytics Apps 101
- Mar 12, 2021 How to Listen at Work
- Mar 10, 2021 Org Networks (Not Org Charts)
- Mar 8, 2021 On Coaches, Captains and Stars
- Mar 5, 2021 Mary Cartwright, Radar & Chaos Theory
- Mar 4, 2021 The TIBCO AI Bus
- Mar 3, 2021 Animating Insight
- Mar 1, 2021 The Animated Bubble Chart Mod (Hans Rosling Fans Unite!)
- Feb 27, 2021 The Essence of Automation: Danger Robot
- Feb 26, 2021 The Essence of Automation: 15 Skills to Pay the Bills
- Feb 25, 2021 The Essence of Automation: Better Together
- Feb 24, 2021 The Essence of Automation: Cars & Cappuccino
- Feb 23, 2021 She Loves Data Goes Global
- Feb 22, 2021 The Essence of Automation: The Never Get Enough Principle
- Feb 21, 2021 The Essence of Automation: Human Genius Creates Possibilities
- Feb 20, 2021 The Essence of Automation: Driverless Cars & Their Limitations
- Feb 19, 2021 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Dueling Fan Chart
- Feb 18, 2021 W.E.B. Du Bois: Subtle Groupings and Poetic Annotations
- Feb 17, 2021 W.E.B. Du Bois, Data Science as Art
- Feb 16, 2021 W.E.B. Du Bois, Data Scientist: Motivation
- Feb 15, 2021 Mods Before and After
- Feb 15, 2021 Mods Power Hour
- Feb 14, 2021 The W.E.B. Du Bois Visualization Challenge
- Feb 13, 2021 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Pinwheel Chart
- Feb 12, 2021 W.E.B. Du Bois and the Beauty of Negative Space
- Feb 11, 2021 My Software Won’t Fix Your Culture
- Feb 10, 2021 The 80/20 Rule of Insight Discovery Is Being Broken
- Feb 9, 2021 Why “Techno Sapien?”
- Feb 8, 2021 The Stop Times Mod
- Feb 7, 2021 A NoCODE Syllabus for Data Science
- Feb 6, 2021 Why We Should Stop Teaching Coding
- Feb 5, 2021 The Real-Time Public Transportation Accelerator
- Feb 4, 2021 Grandpa’s Attic
- Feb 3, 2021 Explainable AI
- Feb 2, 2021 How to Turn Streaming Data into Wind Energy Innovation
- Feb 1, 2021 Where’s Waldo? + AI = The Voronoi Polygon
- Jan 31, 2021 How AI Helps Find Energy in the Wind
- Jan 30, 2021 Misguided ML Mania
- Jan 29, 2021 Mindset Matters Most
- Jan 28, 2021 The Sara Assicurazioni Metamorphosis
- Jan 27, 2021 Zen and the Art of Integration
- Jan 26, 2021 Monster Data Mash-Ups
- Jan 25, 2021 The Mods Grandmaster Flash Challenge
- Jan 24, 2021 Ghostwriters
- Jan 23, 2021 Shitty First Tries
- Jan 22, 2021 Virtualize, Don’t Centralize
- Jan 21, 2021 The Death of the Too Late Architecture is Still Greatly Exaggerated
- Jan 20, 2021 How New Zealand’s COVID Response Was Like an Apple Product Launch
- Jan 19, 2021 Florence Nightingale, Data Scientist
- Jan 18, 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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2020
- Dec 31, 2020 The Writing Robot
- Dec 30, 2020 Trevor Bauer Goals, 2021
- Dec 29, 2020 The Anatomy of Goal Setting, Featuring David Perell
- Dec 28, 2020 Find Hidden Genius
- Dec 27, 2020 10 Ways to Engage Introverts at Work in 2021
- Dec 26, 2020 Sell and Spell in 2021
- Dec 25, 2020 On Pause
- Dec 24, 2020 The Theory of Tech Evolution
- Dec 23, 2020 Hiding AI
- Dec 22, 2020 How to Overcome Algorithm Aversion in 2021
- Dec 21, 2020 Enterprise Data Detox, 2021
- Dec 20, 2020 The Hard Part
- Dec 19, 2020 A Wicked Smaht History of Spotfire
- Dec 18, 2020 Mercedes-AMG Petronas and the “Fastest R&D Lab on Earth”
- Dec 17, 2020 Analytics Minimalism
- Dec 16, 2020 Just Re-Do It.
- Dec 15, 2020 The Art of Value Realization
- Dec 14, 2020 7 Ways COVID Culture is Better Than You Think
- Dec 13, 2020 The Silicon Valley Meteor Shower
- Dec 12, 2020 Allergic to AI Arrogance
- Dec 11, 2020 Model Ops 101
- Dec 10, 2020 The Data Science Ferrari
- Dec 9, 2020 #DataScienceFail?
- Dec 8, 2020 She Loves Data
- Dec 7, 2020 Big Boss
- Dec 6, 2020 Filling Map Gaps
- Dec 5, 2020 Innovation is Culture, Not Technology
- Dec 4, 2020 Train-alytics
- Dec 3, 2020 AI that Helps You Skate to Where the Puck is Going to Be
- Dec 2, 2020 Batman AI
- Dec 1, 2020 Are Blue Ocean Strategies Prescriptive or Descriptive?
- Nov 30, 2020 Edward Tufte Redesigns the Sentence
- Nov 29, 2020 50,000 Data Chiefs
- Nov 28, 2020 The Panera Pandemic Pivot
- Nov 27, 2020 Too Many Fields of Dreams
- Nov 26, 2020 The Panera Bread Blue Ocean
- Nov 25, 2020 Blue Ocean Strategy
- Nov 24, 2020 Presence and Pioneers
- Nov 23, 2020 Failure Builds Growth, Mastery and Trust
- Nov 22, 2020 Fix It
- Nov 21, 2020 Be Micro-Ambitious
- Nov 20, 2020 Entrepreneurial Tribes
- Nov 19, 2020 Decisive Moments
- Nov 18, 2020 Keep Trying the Next Wave
- Nov 17, 2020 Fight Through Barriers
- Nov 16, 2020 Dive In
- Nov 15, 2020 Panera Bread Body Surfing
- Nov 12, 2020 IoT Market Myopia
- Nov 11, 2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Analytics
- Nov 10, 2020 The Analytics Practice
- Nov 8, 2020 We Make Paintbrushes
- Oct 30, 2020 KBTG Bank
- Oct 23, 2020 Stone Soup
- Oct 14, 2020 The Future of Analytics
- Oct 12, 2020 Open Banking
- Oct 5, 2020 Analytics for Moving Data
- Oct 1, 2020 Your Next Enterprise Data Fabric
- Oct 1, 2020 On Intrapreneuring
- Sep 23, 2020 27 Twitter Lessons for CEOs
- Sep 9, 2020 Dynamic Learning 101
- Mar 3, 2020 Why Data Science is Cool (Slide Share)
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2019
- Jun 4, 2019 Explaining Data Science to High School Students
- Jun 4, 2019 When You Suddenly Become Mom and Dad