While Twitter buzzes with rumors of Bard’s dominance, a simple test tells a different story The past several days have seen a flurry of Twitter AI influencers take to the bird app to proclaim GPT’s rein is over. Google’s Bard is the new kid on the block according to the…

How NFTs have given rise to a new industry — The most Mike Winkelmann had ever made from a given copy of his art was $100. A longtime digital artist, he faced a seemingly intractable problem: how to share and drive awareness of his work while convincing people to pay for something they could copy for free. The laws of…

How blockchain advances a long-standing trend of decentralization through technological innovation — One early August afternoon, Phil Brandenberger went shopping. After spotting a music album that suited his taste, he took out his credit card, paid a modest $12.48, and became the proud owner of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales. If this sounds like the beginning of the most mundane story imaginable, it’s…

Years after the first pilot projects for enterprise blockchain, it’s difficult to get a clear sense of their success I’m trying to solve a business mystery: are private blockchains effective in addressing enterprise use cases? This sounds like it should be easy enough to figure out. Believe me, that’s what…

The hallmark of this revolutionary technology is a series of innovations that persist and disrupt even as the initial fervor dies out. — The Gartner Hype Cycle is the business standard for framing expectations around new technology. It captures the evolution from early visions of utopia to the inevitable disappointment that follows until its gradual acceptance as a tool with certain practical uses, despite its failure to serve as a panacea for all…

Why it’s important to understand this growing phenomenon that is starting to upend the business world. — Recently, I sat through a Blockchain 101 presentation from a self-styled expert who promised to make sense of the convoluted topic. “Blockchain is immutable,” he told the group as I discreetly browsed dictionary.com. “It’s decentralized.” (Okay?) “It’s a distributed ledger.” (Meaning what, exactly?)

Applying for a job through a company’s jobs portal is a game for suckers, dupes, and fools. I learned this after spending a couple months trying it. Having wasted enough of my life on this pointless exercise, I can report back that there’s no worse use of your time. In…

A sizable chunk of the frustration I’ve felt throughout my professional life can be attributed to being stuck on a team that wasn’t being run efficiently. From pointless meetings to cryptic instructions, to broken communication channels: to work on a team whose productivity is being throttled from the top down…

During my first job interview, the interviewer made it a point to tell me what made my prospective company stand out: “What makes us different,” he explained, “is that we stick with our clients all the way through the implementation of a solution whereas others will leave once they’ve pitched…