2026 - Perspective is Everything

Jan 16, 2026

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I love the maps especially at huge malls and state parks with the star ⭐️ saying, “you are here”

Which doesn't mean much if you are directionally challenged. I was hiking with my Gen Z daughters and we got a little lost as we walked on ground that has been around for thousands of years. But we found our way back to the car as we avoided pointing fingers and panicking. We looked for the green markers. Interestingly some markers were obvious and others were green dots on the rocks. After all, a state park with red rocks and boulders embedded with quartz cannot have poles drilled into it so they painted green dots.

The stars and sky are there for us only because the earth gives us the ground of stability.

Nature will give you perspective.
Time will give you perspective.
Death will give you perspective.

Remember when…

••Remember y2k and the fear that the world would halt at 11:59 pm on Dec 31 1999?

••Remember the early days of 2000 and the newness of VCs and start-ups and the web?

••Remember the first cell phone, the blackberry and then the first iPhone that mainstreamed the app store. We went from using phones as a communication device to a fully fledged e-commerce engine.

••Remember that many of us have been on LinkedIn for 20 years and on Facebook for nearly 18 years

••Joined and left other platforms…

••Looked at Snapchat, then got on to Insta.

••Got on YouTube two decades ago for entertainment and we also use it for widespread education.

Innovation stems from deep curiosity and creativity. It's is forged through the, “what if” mind that is wondering about small, trivial, dangerous, big, essential questions.

AI is a vast space that cannot easily be defined, described or defied. It is in active collaboration with humans.

It is everything, everywhere, all at once.

“We'll see emergence of what we term "collaborative intelligence" with workflows designed from the ground up for human-AI teams rather than AI systems with human oversight grafted on. Rather than AI replacing humans or humans constraining AI, properly designed systems amplify human expertise while automating routine cognitive work. Organizations that achieve this balance will out-compete those stuck in adversarial human-versus-AI thinking.”

The more we resist, the less we learn, the less we learn, the harder it will become to adapt, the less likely it becomes to survive.

Technology that has enjoyed tremendous growth and profitability especially over the last 30 years is starting to plateau as it bumps into the age-old barriers of natural resources, inflated demand and accesibility.

But the BIG questions will always start with