Apr 6Human Dot AI: How to Think About the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Brands, Commerce, and Culture.AI has been shaping the cultural and political landscape, for decades by shaping the attention economy. The largest commercial use of AI to date has been advertising based businesses, turning human attention into advertising revenue and commerce. The latest evolution of AI is very different, exponentially accelerating the rate and…Ai And Ethics10 min readAi And Ethics10 min read
Published inMedia Future·Sep 6, 2017The Ultimate CryptocurrencyMaybe you weren’t early to bitcoin. Maybe you missed the boat on ethereum. But you still want to get rich, right? Announcing the next big cryptocurrency opportunity: LyfeCorp. Get in on our forthcoming Initial Coin Offering (ICO). …Bitcoin4 min readBitcoin4 min read
Published inMedia Future·Mar 6, 2017Building Product for the “4 R’s”In this media-saturated world human attention is at an all-time premium. Consumers are constantly pelted with outside stimuli. This means that an ordinary communication strategy for a product isn’t going to suffice. …Habit Building5 min readHabit Building5 min read
Published inMedia Future·Feb 1, 2017Piercing the Filter BubbleEveryone likes to hate on advertising (myself included, all too often given my day job). But here’s something wild to consider: In the “filter bubble” world where people watch what they want, when they want and news feeds curate themselves to reinforce their worldview, advertising supported content might be the…Advertising4 min readAdvertising4 min read
Published inMedia Future·May 19, 2016This Post Will Have More Views Than All Of TV*(*Viewers of each letter counted as a discrete view) This post was originally published at Fortune. The end of April and first few weeks of May are among the busiest times on the media industry’s calendar. It’s traditionally the upfronts season, when TV networks make their top-dollar pitches to advertisers…Television5 min readTelevision5 min read
Dec 22, 20159 Reasons I’m Not Doing A 2015 Wrap-Up ListBecause Medium doesn’t have a “gallery” option to put each number on, accompanied by a banner ad. 3. Because I am terrible at counting. 5. Because I have already written this, and this, and this. And I stand by them. 6. Because I am terrible at finishing li….Humor1 min readHumor1 min read
Published inMedia Future·Nov 25, 2015I’d Like To Teach The World To Ad BlockThis post was originally published in The Wall Street Journal’s CMO Today. I wish I could go door to door and help people install ad blockers. Door to door, like Don Draper meets Johnny Appleseed, but for ad blockers. It may sound like I’m a turncoat selling out my own…Advertising3 min readAdvertising3 min read
Aug 25, 2015The Importance of Diversity in Storytelling(AKA: Why You Should Support the Tribeca Film Institute) — Each one of us sees the world through a different lens. That lens is defined by our cumulative life experiences, our gender and racial identities, our personal beliefs. It’s what shapes how we see and experience the world. We are also humans, and by nature we gravitate toward great stories…4 min read4 min read
Published inMedia Future·Aug 4, 2015The Denominator Problem: Understanding the Rising Cost of Human AttentionToday is just 24 hours long. Tomorrow will be 24 hours long, too. We sleep an average of 7.7 hours a night, which leaves 16.3 hours in which we humans can pay attention to, well, everything. That’s not increasing. …9 min read9 min read
Published inMedia Future·Apr 24, 2015Advertising 2: Judgment DayIf you are in advertising and you don’t understand the statement made by the fact that Google Contributor even exists, you should just quit now. Seriously. Google Contributor is a subscription service that lets users pay to reduce the number of ads they see, and today it arrived in beta…Advertising3 min readAdvertising3 min read