Saturday, January 30, 2016

Early Indications January 2016: Shocks

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The past month has been marked by a series of extraordinary events that would have been completely unforeseen only a year ago, or even in ...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Early Indications November 2015: Broad thoughts on the Internet of Things

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Current state The notion of an Internet of Things is at once both old and new. From the earliest days of the World Wide Web, devices were ...

Early Indications October 2015: Of colleges, jobs, and analytics

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It's funny how careers unfold. As a result of being in a particular place in a particular time, I find myself teaching analytics, supp...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Early Indications September 2015: The MBA at 100 (or so)

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It’s mostly coincidence, but the MBA degree is at something of a crossroads entering its second century. A short list of big question...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Early Indications July 2015: Crossover Points

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I recently read an enjoyable study of the airport as cultural icon (Alastair Gordon’s Naked Airport ; hat-tip to @fmbutt) and got to think...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Early Indications May 2015: Centaurs

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“We expect a human-robot symbiosis in which it will be natural to see cooperation between robots and humans on both simple and complex tas...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Early Indications April 2015 Review Essay: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

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Let me begin by dispensing with any pretext of objectivity: I think Atul Gawande, a surgeon at a Harvard teaching hospital who writes for ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Early Indications March 2015

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After a busy few months away, the newsletter returns with a collection of news and notes. 1) My long-ish blog post on Uber, Airbnb...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Early Indications October 2014: Who’s Watching?

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I didn’t really go looking for this particular constellation of ideas, but several good pieces really got me connecting the dots and this ...