by Robby Vaflor Lately, I’m increasingly finding myself yearning for the old internet—think 2000s to early 2010s—when you actually surfed the web. It was a time when user activity felt more open-ended, and people weren’t just funneled into the same handful of platforms. While many of the websites then (even branded ones) lacked polish, they certainly weren’t lacking in character: fun little mini games, easter eggs, animations, and chunks of text you actually wanted to read. The last example...

A Call for “Slow-Thinking” The Care and Feeding of the Human Brain in the Age of AI By Malaika Cheney-Coker A much-needed wake-up call or the provocations of an alarmist?  Experts and AI pundits have been choosing these and other lenses to interpret Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s r ecent statement  that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white collar jobs in one to five years. But within the swirl of opinions and the unknowns on how the technology will develop and be adopted, white-collar...

By Jay Black Here’s a statistic that should take root in our brains: “Up to 56% of nonprofit followers take action, such as donating or volunteering, after seeing a compelling story from a nonprofit they follow on social media.” This is a fruit-bearing idea if we grasp it. So we must learn to tell stories. Stories about our vision, about how we have brought about change, stories that spark people to action. The best, most pithy way to get your stories in front of the people who need to see...