Of comics and watches and all things you can touch — The long corridor of space overflowed with people, all jostling to chat with artists, get a custom balloon sculpture, and peruse a massive table full of free comic books. It was National Free Comic Book Day and I marveled at just how many people still wanted to own these seemingly…

A look at emerging social media platforms and their fundamental flaw — Being a glass is half-full kind of guy, I’ve tried to look on the bright side of billionaire Elon Musk scooping up Twitter for $44 billion and turning it into his private company plaything. But I’m faltering. Maybe it’s his constant needling tweets that intentionally attempt to pit the left…

The European Union’s DSA could fundamentally change the Internet — Over the course of 48 hours the ephemeral discussion of how to manage online content solidified into something concrete and formidable. It seemed to start with a landmark speech on the dangers of disinformation from former President Barack Obama at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center in which he warned that…

Are we too impatient for our own good? — I think it started with microwaves. A typical microwave can cook an entire chicken in 16 minutes. That’s three times faster (or more) than the best convection oven. We started using microwaves to reheat and cook virtually everything back in the late 1970s. …

We’re all exploring a billion rabbit holes of idiosyncratic information — Remember newsstands, those cornucopias of content choice that used to be everywhere but are now relegated to airports and bookstores? They had everything — a magazine for every hobby and interest. Standing before them was often where I learned about how people were deeply into woodworking, tattoos, cats, yarn, and…

Stuck between the expensive toys we don’t want and companions they’re still not — I gently pulled the decaying Pleo down off a top shelf in my office. The once energetic robot toy hadn’t been touched in years. Its battery depleted and rubber skin frayed and split. …

For the first time, every Best Picture nominee can be streamed before the Academy Awards show — It took careful planning, but I did it. In 2009, on the eve of the 2008 Oscars telecast, I started the afternoon watching Slum Dog Millionaire in one theater and finished the night watching The Wrestler in another a town or two away. My goal was simple, complete my 2008…

Why I’m still tweeting — How many things do you do consistently for 15 years? For me, it’s not a lot, and if you would’ve told me on March 19, 2007, that my first inconsequential tweet would be the beginning of 15 years of pithy Twitter missives, I know I would’ve laughed in your face.

They’re still just people — and not always good ones — Over the years, I’ve met my share of CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs, and “visionaries.” What they all have in common is a deep, bottomless belief in their ideas and the will to make them happen. They can be myopic, dismissive, unpredictable, but are also often charismatic, exciting, unusual. As they build…