When Lee Sherman ran marketing content at Mint, he crossed a line most organizations won’t dare to. He mentioned a competitor.
Oh, no! It’s one thing for a boss to say “you build trust by showing trust.” That sure sounds good coming from a glossy inflight magazine.… Read more...
The get “smart” these days, city leaders usually beef themselves up with a network of sensors. They become a city of things, wired and tuned. Unfortunately, that alone doesn’t make a city a nice place to be. For that, you also need wabi-sabi.… Read more...
While Qlik was waking up to data literacy, Tableau wants you to know it’s been there all the time.
Just look over at Tableau Public. That free platform has served more than 300,000 authors creating over 10,000 new visualization per week.… Read more...
Richard Sennett’s new book, Buildings and Dwellings, has a new variety of ambivalence about so-called “smart cities.” It’s one I hadn’t heard.
From the Los Angeles Review of Books’ review:
… Read more...Referring to smart cities that use technology to dictate city life and surveil citizens, he warns, “By using machines, people would stop learning.