Globalization of flows: pulling commodity parts mainly from China and South Korea, using open-source software and collaboration tools, and employing the design/manufacturing/assembly abilities of two...
Best questions. The world of the designer changes, explains Bass, from the form maker to the person that creates the goals and the constraints of the object to be designed—[and that person] then no lo...
You can be a rich person alone. You can be a smart person alone. But you cannot be a complete person alone. For that you must be part of, and rooted in, an olive grove. This truth was once beautifully...
While their parents knew a different life and would never really feel at home again without it, their kids had never known anything else and would never really feel whole because of it. Over
When I asked Marine Sergeant Jeffrey Roberts what he thought was happening in Lebanon, he explained, To me it was a civil war, only it wasn’t just the North against the South. It was North against Sou...
We want America in the twenty-first century to be the launching pad where everyone in the world comes to launch his or her moon shot. We want it to be the place where innovators and entrepreneurs the...
There is mounting performance pressure on all of us—as individuals and institutions. All of this connectivity means significantly lower barriers to entry and movement, accelerating change and the incr...
The supernova is enabling a deeper revolution that is just beginning, spurred by learning platforms such as Udacity, edX, and Coursera, that will change the very metabolism and shape of higher educati...
The rabbi stated: When you look into the face of the person who is beside you, and you can see that person is your brother or your sister, then finally the night has ended, and the day has begun. Hast...
The principal factor promoting historically significant social change is contact with strangers possessing new and unfamiliar skills.
The emergence of intelligent algorithms and networks such as LaunchCode, which can be used by employers as trusted validators to sow people into the system and not weed them out of it, holds the promi...
That is why, I explained to Bojia, as a columnist, I am either in the heating business or the lighting business. Every column or blog has to either turn on a lightbulb in your reader’s head—illuminate...
Social media is great for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building. Good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction.
Our current long-term vision at LinkedIn is to extend this professional graph into an economic graph by digitally manifesting every economic opportunity [i.e., job] in the world (full-time and tempora...
My time in the Middle East led me to realize that, with a few rare exceptions, the dominant political ideology there—whether you were talking about Sunnis or Shiites or Kurds, Israelis, Arabs, Persian...
LinkedIn was barely known and most people thought it was a prison,
For the same reason, added McKinsey, products can go viral on a scale that has never been seen before. In 2015, Adele’s song ‘Hello’ racked up fifty million views on YouTube in its first forty-eight h...
Facebook didn’t even exist yet, Twitter was still a sound, the cloud was still in the sky, 4G was a parking space, applications were what you sent to college, LinkedIn was barely known and most people...
Today’s workers need to approach the workplace much like athletes preparing for the Olympics, with one difference. They have to prepare like someone who is training for the Olympics but doesn’t know w...
Today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, shallow comments over deep conversations.