The Enterprise LLM Is Here, And It’s Going To Change Everything I’ve had a lot of cool and interesting experiences in my career. One of them was a brief stint working alongside Jeff Dachis, the co-founder of the legendary digital firm, Razorfish and currently founder and CEO at One Drop. Back then, we were sizing up how social media was transforming…

Human-Machine Collaboration Wanted Originally Published on Forbes Lost in the gold rush of Generative A.I. is a much bigger truth that will impact how influential and disruptive this new era of human-computer collaboration will be. IBM recently announced the company’s mantra for 2023, consisting of three choice words: “Eliminate, Simplify, Automate.” Behind these…

A Pandemic of Decency I do miss how united we were. How in that moment, we felt bound together under a single identity. People from rural areas didn’t think twice about coming to the aid of their urban cousins even though the lifestyles between the two could not be any…

Why Our Past Grounds Us In Our Future Originally posted on David by Design I recently accepted an opportunity to work with a very cool venture in the autonomous mobility space with some amazing people I know and have worked with before. Aside from the people and the place, the…

Originally published on Forbes It was approximately a month ago that WeWork CEO Sandeep Mathrani sparked a backlash by stating confidently, “only the least engaged employees want to continue working from home.” The news cycle was relentless in pointing out that Mathrani’s comments were insensitive or inaccurate. I even pointed…

Originally posted on David by Design For the past five years or so, I have been informally mentoring people. I’m happy to report that some of the earliest are ridiculously successful and I still keep in touch. I’m also a mentee to a few people I look up to. …

This past week I “celebrated” a year of career transition. It seems like a strange thing to celebrate as I didn’t find career transition, it found me. But unless you’re one of those rare creatures in life where everything goes according to plan — a career transition is just like…

Article originally posted on Forbes In the early days of my career, the business world had just begun to embrace the notion of “Customer Experience” along with the initial iterations of e-commerce and e-everything. Consumer expectations were changing with technological advances, and new(ish) field emerged: “CX,” shorthand for Customer Experience…

When Creativity Misfires “Women belong in the kitchen…” …read the first tweet. The second and third didn’t matter. We’re a culture that reads headlines and skips over the rest. If there was a creative brief behind the choice for Burger King to attempt breaking through into culture by using a…