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Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review. I edit long-form features, books, and blogposts. I also ghostwrite. My main coverage areas are technology, sales, marketing, and all management research. Knicks and Yankees.
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Do your salespeople cheat? Researchers conducted a poll of approximately 100 sales compensation professionals at a 2023 sales incentive conference. They learned that 83% struggled to prevent salespeople from cheating. hbr.org/2025/03/how-...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 The explosion of consumer-facing AI raise questions about who is more likely to adopt it. We examined how people’s knowledge of AI impact AI receptivity. Against most people’s expectations, it's not tech experts! And not for the reason you may be thinking🧵

Yo this is bonkers

Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.

A recent Gartner survey of 3,375 employees found that training workers in the core skills essential to their roles right now has five times more impact on their performance than teaching “emerging” skills that don’t have a clear here-and-now application.

"Successfully reimagining business processes isn’t as easy as asking ChatGPT to audit workflows. To get up to speed, leaders need to learn which processes are ripe for algorithm-powered redesign." By H. James Wilson and Paul Daugherty. hbr.org/2025/01/the-...

"What’s driving resistance to AI? Fundamental human perceptions that AI is too opaque, emotionless, rigid, and independent, and that interacting with humans is far more preferable." By Julian De Freitas. hbr.org/2025/01/why-...

"Executives need to think broadly about how people, data, technology, AI, and analytics come together to improve business performance. Process needs to lie at the core." Another excellent feature by Tom Davenport and Tom Redman.

This made me lol

I’ve never had a hard time ruling out serious suitors. 🤷‍♂️

This #Knicks team plays harder than any team I’ve ever followed in ANY sport. @ny-knicks.bsky.social

Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired. In recent years the company has struggled to compete with chipmakers in China, leading Intel to set up a new made-in-America project in Ohio. Read more: www.wired.com/story/intel-...

Is this real?!

It is sort of darkly funny that the only person the Biden DOJ unfairly prosecuted for political reasons ended up being Biden’s own son

I love my fellow New Yorkers and this wear pattern evidence that they aren't reopening the elevator doors for anyone who comes running...

You! Watch Silo on AppleTV. Don’t be dumb.

Say what now?

whaaaaaa?!

The horrid start to my week is definitely a harbinger of Juan Soto signing with the Red Sox

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

Well, now I know we made the right decisions

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What are the key differences between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and other top AI tools? Which one is best? Our AI expert @thiccreese.bsky.social answers your questions:

This one made me lol