Principal analyst at Creative Strategies. Leads primary research on the global market for consumer tech. Columnist at Tech.pinions. Husband. Father. Farmer.
I am an avid tennis player. While Baseball was my primary sport growing up, and the one I played in college, I always loved tennis. There is something spectacular about the game that requires both finesse and serious athleticism coupled with an…
It all started with a Google search “the psychology of changing your mind.”
It turns out changing your mind about something is a fairly uncommon event. Given all that has happened with the US political spectrum, and the attempts I see by many on both sides of the political…
I wanted to tweet this but with Twitter being down I am really not sure what to do with myself.
I was driving down 101 and saw this advertisement for iPhone 7. We have all seen many ads like it but a new thought hit me this time. How many consumer tech companies can advertise their product with simply a nice photograph of it?
Innovation is not invention and, similarly, all inventions are not innovative. Innovation can, and often does, include iterations or re-packaging of existing inventions in ways that make sense for broader groups of consumers to use. Interestingly, I came across this article which…
Living here in Silicon Valley and working with as many venture capitalists as I do, I can’t escape discussions of “The On-Demand Economy”. If you aren’t familiar with this, it is an investment thesis of many investors and includes companies like Uber, Shyp, Luxe…