Startingup
I find I'm so excited that I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at a start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncer...
The Road Goes Ever On
“It’s a dangerous business,” says Bilbo Baggins, “going out your front door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to....
Frictionless Competition and the Surprising Monopolization of the Internet
In the last few months I’ve been spending quite a bit of time thinking about the challenges in physical retail – stores. I’m going to be talking much more about that in the months to come, but ...
Digital Transformation and the Reverse Hierarchy of Understanding
Why is it so hard for the traditional enterprise to do digital well? That’s the question that lurks at the heart of every digital transformation discussion. After all, there’s plenty of evidence ...
Big Data Forecasting
Forecasting is a foundational activity in analytics and is a fundamental part of everyone’s personal mental calculus. At the simplest level, we live and work constantly using the most basic forecas...