The Atlantic
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
What the Internet is doing to our brains.
Googlethink
The giant's creepy efforts to read my mind.
The New York Times Magazine
The Price of Free
What will happen to TV if we all stream shows from the Web.
The Wall Street Journal
The Dangers of Web Tracking
Privacy is not only essential to life and liberty; it's essential to the pursuit of happiness.
Does the Internet Make You Dumber?
The cognitive effects are measurable – and disturbing.
How to Be a Smart Innovator (Interview)
Figuring out where to innovate is as important as figuring out how to innovate.
Wired
The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
The Net seizes our attention only to scatter it.
The Future of Computing (Interview)
The cloud has arrived. Now what?
Want to Piss Off a CEO?
Tech industry leaders may not want to admit it, but their own strategies are turning their companies' products into commodities.
The New Republic
The Medium Is McLuhan
A review of Douglas Coupland's biography of Marshall McLuhan.
Hooked
A review of Tom Bissell's Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter.
Deafened
A review of George Prochnik's In Pursuit of Silence.
The PC Officially Died Today
The unveiling of the iPad marks a new era in personal computing.
Gathering Clouds
Google's reasons for leaving China aren't as pure as they seem.
The Daily Beast
Drowning in Beeps
A review of James Gleick's The Information.
The New York Times
Does not compute
The FBI enters software hell, a very crowded place.
Microsoft Is Dead. Long Live Microsoft.
Software is immortal - and that's the problem
The Washington Post
Are Google Maps and GPS bad for our brains?
Satellite navigation makes getting around easier, but there are drawbacks.
The San Francisco Chronicle
As Technology Advances, Deep Reading Suffers
Words in print are different from words on a screen.
Googled
A review of Ken Auletta's book on the search giant.
Strategy & Business
The Ignorance of Crowds
The open source model can play an important role in innovation, but know its limitations.
The Weakest Link
Where progress bogs down, profits lurk.
Complementary Genius
Sometimes "sticking to your knitting" isn't the best strategy.
Flying Blind
It's hard to recognize a magnificent failure when it's taking off.
Top-Down Disruption
What Clayton Christensen doesn't tell you about disruptive innovation.
Suits to the Rescue
The most lucrative innovations rarely come from creative types.
Bridging the Breakthrough Gap
Creating disruptions is fine, but mending them can be better.
Mastering Imitation
Before you think about how to innovate, think about where to innovate.
Business Week Online
Lessons in Corporate Blogging
Blogs can be useful tools for business communication, but beware of the pitfalls.
Amazon.com's Split Personality
Is it a retailer or a tech firm? It may be time for Jeff Bezos to decide.
Tech: Where the Last Are First
Suddenly, it's the little guys who are leading the way.
Big Software's Blood Sport
The real reason SAP and Oracle are battling to buy Retek.
Dell: Beware the Beige-Box Blahs
Will Dell lose its grip on the home market?
Requiem for the corporate PC
We're in the middle of a big PC upgrade cycle. Will it be the last?
Business Week
The Tech Advantage is Overrated (Interview)
Why it rarely pays to be an IT pioneer anymore.
Financial Times
The IT Advantage Thrown Into Question
Are you expecting too much from your investments in information technology?
Secrets of Succession
The hiring of CEOs has become a theater of the absurd.
Co-written with Rakesh Khurana.
Harvard Business Review
It Doesn't Matter
As information technology's power and ubiquity have increased, its strategic importance has decreased. That has profound implications for corporate IT management.
Hypermediation: Commerce as ClickstreaM
Forget disintermediation. We've entered an era of hypermediation, with dozens of players competing for tiny pieces of every sale.
Unreal Options
Business investments open options for future action. But that doesn't mean they can be valued like financial options.
Bob's Meltdown
A crusty but effective business manager just blew his stack at a corporate exec. What should the CEO do? An HBR case study.
Starting Up in High Gear: An Interview with Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla
The definitive interview with the influential Kleiner Perkins partner.
On the Edge: An Interview with Akamai's George Conrades
What went on inside an Internet juggernaut.
Being Virtual: Character and the New Economy
What happens to our souls when we go digital? A review of Richard Sennett's The Corrosion of Character.
Managing in the Euro Zone
Perspectives on the strategic and operational implications of a common European currency.
MIT Sloan Management Review
The End of Corporate Computing
What comes next is completely different.
In Praise of Walls
Why the hype about borderless companies is dangerous.
Ad Age
What Cloud Means to Marketing
As consumers use the Net for computing, prepare for a broader media upheaval.
DigitAll
Is Greatness a Network Effect?
Don't expect greatness to emerge from the wisdom of the crowd.
The Banker
Leaner Technology, Larger Profits
Banks have been some of the biggest investors in information technology. The time has come to get more for less.
Boston Globe
The Growing Specter of Deflation
History shows that deflation can be the price of an economic boom.
Business 2.0
Partnering Is Such Sweet Sorrow
Is outsourcing undermining your company's strategy?
The Industry Standard
Get Back in That Box
Nonlinear thinking is hot. It's also dumb.
The Big Picture
It's better to be different than to be fast.
Plastic Medium
The meaning of Blogger.
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Internet shakeout has changed the rules of engagement. Speed and cooperation are out. Patience and ruthlessness are in.
Gated Communities
The next big competitive battle is for the very soul of the Internet.
Beyond Exchanges
Two visions of the future of B2B, both radically different from current expectations.
The Mouse That Roared
Internet applications erase the operating differences among companies. That makes innovation more important than ever.
Giant Steps
Success on the Internet often requires leaping from one business model to another. Here's how to make sure you land in the right place.
No Margin for Error
Online sellers have learned a hard lesson: Efficient markets wreak havoc on profits.
Be What You Aren't
On the Internet, competitive advantage is a means, not an end. To succeed, you need to seek leverageable advantages.
Out of Site
What happens to your business when Web sites become obsolete?
Old and in the Way
In the Information Age, the spoils will often go to those who can hack the business infrastructure.
Bonfire of the Brands
E-commerce promotes rational shopping. That could diminish the value of brands.
The Myth of Scalability
Supersizing your e-business isn't always the answer, especially if it's as easy for competitors to get big as it is for you.
From Strategies to Business Models
In a fast-changing economy, testing hypotheses can matter more than proving theories.