Let’s talk about something that isn’t popular, how we spend time on social media and what it’s actually doing to us. It isn’t just the kids who spend a great deal of time on their devices. It’s anyone and everyone with a smartphone and tablet and any social media app. …

I struggled to be like everyone else when I was growing up. The path to success was long established for my generation as it had been for the generations prior. The definition of success was always the same. Study hard. Work hard. Start a family. Buy a home. …

In March 2020, we became a digital-first world. We didn’t really have a choice otherwise. Everything changed overnight. We had to figure out how to keep up. We had to learn how to adapt. We’re still learning. We’re still trying to figure out what new role we’re supposed to play…

In my work, I help organizations reimagine the future, exploring opportunities for innovation in operations, service, experience, and products and service. More and more, I’m being asked to help executives challenge their own conventions, to help inspire open mindsets, creativity, and imagination, to help leaders see new possibilities for transformation…

Oh, the irony. Recently on Facebook, I was presented with a memory from nine years earlier. It was a picture from my birthday dinner with a pile of phones strewn across a table. It was almost as if there were a sign that directed people to the table with instructions…

Time is constant, life is not. Yet, we live in a time where busyness is pervasive and we make decisions as if life, like time, is constant. How many times has someone asked, “how are you?” only to respond, “busy.” …

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” — George Orwell, 1984 I’d landed in Hamburg, Germany after speaking at an event in Copenhagen. I was exhausted but incredibly inspired. Even though I keynote events…

On February 22, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Greg Nibler of the daily video podcast Digital Trends Live about my upcoming book, Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive and Happy Life. (Video at the end.) Digital Trends is a Portland, ORE technology news, lifestyle, and…

“Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde The more I have, the more I risk losing. The more I live, the more I learn the price of loss. The more I appreciate life…