My alma mater, Williams College, begins the academic year with a convocation, a ceremony for seniors, faculty and a small number of alumni who are… Read More »Williams Convocation Address: “Bibliolarceny and the Size of the Universe”
I spoke this morning at the tenth incarnation of BIF, Business Innovation Factory, an annual conference in Providence, RI that focuses on storytelling. It’s got… Read More »A public apology – on screwing up by not questioning assumptions – my talk at #BIF10
Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson on Saturday August 9, 2014. After his body lay in the hot street for four… Read More »Self-segregation on social networks and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story
Around noon on Saturday, an 18-year old African American teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a local police officer in Ferguson, MO, a… Read More »News reports on Michael Brown’s death: how do mourners become a “mob”?
I wrote a book review, of sorts, last week about Walter Isaacson’s book on Steve Jobs and my concern that biographies, as a genre, celebrate… Read More »The biography I’m waiting for: Bambaataa and the parallel universe of hip hop
A friend recently posted a video on Facebook, a 1997 news story from ABC’s Nightline about Tripod, the social media company I helped build in… Read More »How do you write a biography about collaboration?