A wrap-up of articles I found most interesting this month. How Veterans Turned Entrepreneurs Are Disrupting The Pentagon’s Weapons Program – Fast Company, 4/3/2017 This was my favorite read of the month. Having been in the defense contracting world for several years, I understood the inflexibility of contracting – where the military defines their problem… Read More »
A brief selection of articles I found interesting this month: My Insights About “What is an Insight?” – LinkedIn post by Craig Fleisher, 2/9/2017 Written by a past professor of mine at USF, Dr. Fleisher provides very interesting insight into insights. Fleisher discusses that too many analysts just provide information, without providing insight. Fleisher defines… Read More »
A wrap-up of business, innovation, and media articles I found most interesting this month. An Agenda for the Future of Global Business – Harvard Business Review, 2/27/2017 A very good and insightful look at the future of global businesses following the rejection of globalism by millions of voters worldwide in 2016. This article identifies the… Read More »
Over the weekend, I had the awesome pleasure of chatting with Michael Tillery of The Starting Five Live online radio show on RapStation.com. Mike is a longtime e-migo whom I have corresponded with for 10 years or so. Mike has been a freelance writer as well who has given me a lot of advice and… Read More »
A wrap-up of articles I found most interesting this month. (I promise few if any articles on the new American president.) Why America is Self-Segregating – Data Society Points, 1/5/2017 I could write a lot about this article. Researcher Danah Boyd explores America’s drift into social segregation by using examples of the military, military contracting,… Read More »
A wrap-up of articles I found most interesting this month. America’s National Security Agencies Under Trump: Lessons from the Nixon Administration – War on The Rocks, 12/21/2016 War on the Rocks takes an interesting look at distrust between the president-elect and intelligence agencies. So far, Donald Trump has shown hostility towards intelligence organizations. During the… Read More »
A wrap-up of articles I found most interesting this month. Freedom on the Net 2016 – Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure – FreedomHouse.org Since 2011, FreedomHouse.org has released annual reports on Internet Freedom – the ability to communicate ideas via the internet. According to their “About Freedom House” page, the “freedoms of speech,… Read More »
A wrap-up of articles I found most interesting this month. War Goes Viral: How social media is being weaponized across the world – The Atlantic, November 2016 This was my favorite read of the month. Authors Emerson T. Booking and P.W. Singer explore the relatively new phenomenon of social media manipulation. Booking and Singer discuss… Read More »
A wrap-up of articles I found most interesting this month. Google’s Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits – Wired.com, 9/7/16 This article discusses Google’s efforts to gear search results to anti-ISIS propaganda. Through a Google sub-company named “Jigsaw”, Google is attempting to persuade potential ISIS recruits towards anti-ISIS videos and articles. As a key… Read More »
A few months ago, I wrote a post about an ESPN Magazine writer who decided to tweet how she was rooting against Florida State for no other reason than she disliked how the school handled the legal repercussions of Jameis Winston’s actions. I thought making her opinion public was a bad idea, if only because promoting… Read More »