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Reactions leverage articles and publications to add thoughts to I have read, discovered, come across, or did that could were found to be relevant. This includes things I have recently read.

Adding preferred pronouns to my email signature

A few weeks ago, I worked with Moira Rosek to host Julia from UConn's Rainbow Center to offer a Husky Safe Zone training at the GBLC. This was part of an effort we are calling Dignity x Diversity to invite graduate school of business students to conversations regarding

"All theories are based on small companies"

At the conclusion of our course, Professor Souder allowed us to ask two questions of him, one having to do with written business communication and the other on anything we wanted. Is Amazon a monopoly and should Amazon be broken up under anti-trust law or any other reason? This is

Meeting your customer when they are

Businesses of all kinds operate on the assumption that customers need to come to them. Why not try to flip this on it’s head?

On independence

I wonder now, how independent any of us really are, ever, even at its—how do I say—peak availability, if you will. Can you ever value independence and not be to a large degree selfish? Are we ever as independent as we might think or say? Can we be together and independent, simultaneously?

Abstinence is our default solution

Abstinence, this idea that we can and should simply go without, is too often our default response to any problem — personal or otherwise. It is typically more difficult than that.

On engagement

Engagement is perhaps the industry term of the last decade. To me, engagement has always been about keeping the conversation going, about understanding needs, and above all else relationship building. Lately, it is clearer than ever that I have misunderstood. Engagement equals addiction. Measured in so-called impressions, repeat clicks, total

Methodology vs ideology

I was reviewing my “about me” page and my professional profiles (e.g. LinkedIn) and I noticed a word I frequently use: methodology. It’s something I focus on, in contrast to focusing on so-called “best practices”. Something in the news caught my attention though. In politics, we often hear

Controlling demand demands a big shift

In the last three weeks, Ben Thompson has been hammering away his point about the past advantages of controlling supply and the future advantages of those who control demand, e.g. Facebook, Google. Not since reading Stratechery [http://www.stratechery.com/] or listening to Exponent [http://exponent.fm/] on a

What will device culture mean for our kids?

The last morning of my Colorado ski weekend was spent in the hotel lobby having breakfast and waiting for the airport shuttle to arrive. There was a family sitting across the way — two parents and three kids — who looked to be done eating. The two adults were sitting on either

Do you believe the world is flat?

In November 2017, there was the Flat Earth Conference [https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/ywnnaj/people-from-around-the-globe-met-for-the-first-flat-earth-conference] , where a small (yet surprisingly large) number of people convened to share and reveal in their belief that the world is indeed flat. To say that everyone in the world knows the