Saturday, April 30, 2022

Early Indications April 2022: Career Capital

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Over the past 6 or 7 years, I’ve been paying close attention to the question of how young people get launched in careers. I’ve taught course...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Early Indications March 2022: Inflation hits the tech sector

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After decades of low, stable interest rates, a whole generation of managers and consumers is experiencing both global instability and widesp...
Tuesday, March 01, 2022

Early Indications February 2022: Passing the Baton?

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For several years, I’ve been concerned about the pace of innovation in the tech sector. There are many ways to measure this, of course, but ...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Early Indications January 2022: Bowling in Atlanta?

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*In 2000, the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam expanded a 1995 essay into a book entitled Bowling Alone . In it he contended that p...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Early Indications December 2021: Platform Proliferation

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Two quick notes:  1) November's newsletter was reprinted in edited form in the Boston Sunday Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Early Indications November 2021: Metaverses for good

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By now everyone has seen multiple reactions to Mark Zuckerberg’s vision/rebranding announcement that posits that vast numbers of us will pre...
Tuesday, November 09, 2021

Early Indications September 2021: What’s ahead for the big Internet platforms?

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In 2005, the World Wide Web turned 15, and both Facebook and YouTube launched us into the age of the platform. In 2020, Facebook and YouTube...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Early Indications August 2021: What comes after maturity?

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Back in the early 2000s when I attended a lot of tech conferences, there was a common and usually regretful discussion: is tech now a mature...