The day I understood that these two companies were really solving one problem from opposite ends, everything about how I ran both businesses changed.
Health systems want to own the digital front door. AI is giving patients other options, and Zocdoc wants to enable every new route to care.
Many leaders have focused on how quickly they can adopt AI, but far fewer have focused on whether their workforce is prepared to adapt alongside it.
Websites and apps need to serve not only people navigating screens themselves but also software interpreting information and interacting with digital systems for them.
Smartglasses are emerging as a potential solution for blue-collar worker and skilled manufacturing labor shortages.
An agent operating inside a system designed for human-paced review doesn’t just underperform—it compounds.
The evidence is clear. More than 100 million cases of contagious disease were prevented by vaccination between 1924 and 2011, and many more since then. Vaccines work.
A 100-year life means a 60-year career. Employers need flexible work arrangements that allow breaks, fewer responsibilities and new ways to contribute as needs change.
Rather than focusing on how fast AI can decide, businesses should prioritize how quickly they can discover when its assumptions are wrong.
The next space economy will emerge at the intersection of government, industry and academia.