Hit the north: I’m moving on from TNW

It’s almost seven years since I started working at a tiny blog called The Next Web.

Zee, the only member of staff working full-time on the site then, hired me to write a post a day after I answered an ad on now long-departed social…

7 Note-Taking App Alternatives

By Francesco D’Alessio

Tech Companies Design Your Life, Here’s Why You Should Care

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes, 15 seconds

Four years ago, I sold my company to Google and joined the ranks there. I spent my last three years there as Product Philosopher, looking at the profound…

Everyone On Tinder Is My Boyfriend

I recently told a coworker the news: I have a boyfriend. But it’s a different boyfriend every night…

It’s time for urbanists and technologists to start talking

What’s Next in Computing?

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes…

Emergent Layers, Chapter 2: Overserved and Underserved Customers

This is part 2 of a four-part series…

Innovation, cities, and the optimistic case for economic growth in the digital age