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I recently had the opportunity to present to a group of senior HR executives at a Fortune 500 company about the emergence of on-demand services and its impact on the future of work. Somehow, our discussion switched over to a [...]

“Machines will never replace humans,” grumbled an executive sitting behind me during Neil Jacobstein’s presentation on “The Rise of the Machines” at the 25th SIA Executive Forum in late February 2016. Interestingly, he was not the only attendee who expressed [...]

I heard a quote today about how difficult and tedious gardening is: “Gardening is 90% pulling weeds, 10% planting seeds.” It’s not just the glamour of designing a garden and then planting the flowers, but a great gardener knows what [...]

Stuck on a plane without wifi, I had the opportunity to catch up on a bunch of articles that I had been saving to read. Two articles of the dozen or so stuck with me – the first an HBR [...]

The first DVD I ever bought was The Matrix. Fantastic movie and in 1999 it was mind-bendingly innovative and amazing (and still is 16 years later). […]

I love heist movies. What I love about them is that seemingly impossible missions are accomplished by a group of misfits. Interestingly, startups are in many ways similar to heist movies. As I go through my own startup journey building [...]

One of my all-time favorite movies is the Karate Kid. This year it celebrates is 30th anniversary (now I feel old) and it had been at least a decade since the last time I watched it so I fired it [...]

One of the greatest joys derived from working on Wonolo is hearing the stories Wonoloers tell us about how the opportunities they came across through Wonolo have impacted them. This will be a series of those stories that we’d like [...]

June was a huge month in sports. The World Cup, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup, and the final race in the Triple Crown. It was the horse racing that got me thinking. Did you ever wonder why a horse can walk [...]