As most of you, I am continually impressed with how quickly AI is developing. As an experiment, I gave Claude a task to gather information of interest to me: the decline of newspapers. I gave Claude a single command and within minutes it had not […]
“Magazines are businesses, much like other companies. But there’s one big difference—they almost always get smaller, not bigger.” So starts Ted Gioia’s recent article, The Death of the Magazine. It is an interesting look at the rise and fall of the industry that was once […]
Sophia Stewart cites Joan Didion’s famous 1979 line from “The White Album” in her recent book review for The Atlantic: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” As such we look for the familiar halmarks of storytelling, writes Stewart: clearly defined heroes and villains, […]
I am looking forward to reading The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World by Nobel Prize-winning author William Nordhaus, who has a long career working with climate policy and economics. The book was published last year by Princeton […]
I recently had the opportunity to hear acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick speak about his career, the maritime history of colonial America, and his writing process. He also spoke about his recent release, Travels with George, which highlights the various locations our first president visited while […]
At Finance & Commerce, I created Beyond the Skyline, a podcast about economic development, real estate and construction in Minnesota. We are closing in on our 100th episode. In this special episode, I speak with historian, former financial services executive and bestselling author Zachary Karabell about his latest book, Inside […]
