The Future of Work is Funny
People talk about coding, math, and even plumbing. One skill that matters in the future? A good sense of humor.
Profits, Fast and Slow
There's an old joke among diamond dealers about a guy who always sold gems "at cost" yet somehow made a fortune. "How do you do it?" his friends asked. "I always buy below cost!" he replied. Private equity funds use a similar
AI Is Too Busy To Take Your Job
Energy Is Too Valuable to Waste on Tasks Humans Can Do.
Everything Not Forbidden Is Compulsory
Someone is going to try it. Why not you?
Playing Like You're Winning (2025 Edition)
Sales calls, product launches, tough conversations — it’s all the same game. The best performers step into every “shot” as if the last one swished, no matter what actually happened.
General Purpose Urbanism
Our cities and offices must learn from the architecture of AI models.
Tariffs and Intangible Assymetry
There's a fundamental asymmetry between China and America: Ideas spread quickly but factories are built slowly. China can catch up with American innovation faster than America can keep up with Chinese manufacturing (even if America wanted to). Over the past decades, America's policy response has been
Zoom and Boom
At work and at war, convenience trumps authority every time.
The Nonlinear Economy
Most of us are playing a game that no longer exists.
London Event: AI & The City
How will artificial intelligence reshape our cities, companies, and careers? Join some of London’s most innovative investors, founders, and thinkers for drinks, a keynote presentation, and a conversation about navigating an increasingly unpredictable world. Drawing on insights from my upcoming book, I will explore how AI is exposing the
Artificial Intelligence Is Working Remotely
A new tool from OpenAI shows how COVID-19 set the scene for a revolution in white-collar work.
Midwit-Adjacent Investing
Looking for a good investment? Find it on the lower slopes of the midwit curve.
AI and the Physical World
"There is a mismatch between our economy and the world we build around it: Our cities, our office buildings, and our housing system. But also, in a more figurative sense, our assumptions about work and success and productivity, and the institutions that we built to educate our kids."
Books I enjoyed this year.
Below are books I read and enjoyed this year, not necessarily for the first time. The list includes books I took notes on, meaning I found them worthwhile. I included affiliate links to Amazon in case you'd like to explore further. The Idea Factory, a history of Bell
The Promise of Precise Mass
AI will democratize new ways to live — and die.
Working The Nvidia Way
A new book sheds light on how to poach, manage, and retain talent.
It's Time to Rethink Inequality
Our battle against inequality is failing because we're fighting the wrong war. We're trying to hold onto the 20th Century instead of embracing the abundance offered by the 21st. Here's what we should do instead.
AI and the Future of Work: The View From the Trenches
Two years after the launch of ChatGPT, most of us are still trying to grasp the implications. Is generative AI a friend, a foe, or a harmless fad? Can it make me more productive, or does it threaten my job? Is innovation in this space stalling, or is it just
Black Swans & Cranberry Sauce: A Thanksgiving Tale
As we gather for Thanksgiving, I wanted to share a story about how an agricultural crisis led to one of marketing's greatest pivots — and what it tells us about the changing rules of success. In November 1959, America stopped eating cranberries. The government alerted the public to avoid
Keynote: Dror @ MIT
How the laws of show business are reshaping our cities, companies, and careers.
