Analytics gurus speak
My interviews with people on the front lines of hiring, developing and implementing […]
Five analytics blogs
It was the year of Big Data. I wrote these five posts on […]
Claudia Goldin says she’s a hedgehog. Will she win a Nobel anyway?
Way back in the spring, my alumni magazine asked me to do a […]
Where are the great robot companies?
Robotics shows are fun. There’s genuinely interesting stuff happening at lots of booths, […]
Electric Kool Aid tastes yummy
I recently read Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, his 1968 […]
The challenge of commercializing science
I spent most of the last three days working on a piece for […]
Energy innovation
I published two pieces on new kinds of energy technologies, one for conservation, […]
Inside Watson’s challenges in an unexpected place
I tend to tune out at conference Q&A time, but there was a […]
Books that influenced me
There’s a meme going around Facebook on the 10 books that have influenced […]
Forgiving Jayson Blair
I’ve been thinking about forgiveness a lot recently. I interviewed Amy-Jill Levine, a […]