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Latest Read: Chatter

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross. Ethan holds a a PhD in psychology from Columbia University. He is professor of psychology and management at the University of Michigan.

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross

In addition, Ethan is the Director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. He is published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science.

This is certainly mandatory reading. The praise attributed to Ethan’s effort is far and wide. And worth every endorsement. Within the opening chapters you will learn why so many have made critical praise to Ethan’s research. He warns that giving in to negative self-talk (what Ethan defines as Chatter) will certainly tank our health, alter our moods, place strain on our connections both at work and at home. Ultimately Chatter will cause us to fold under pressure.

In fact, Ethan is delivering his message in plain english. Actually I really enjoyed his little league baseball bat story. We all have a voice in our head. And yes, we all talk to ourselves. More often than not we find our inner critic. Ethan expands upon the silent conversations we have within ourselves. So, within the opening chapter we begin to understand why we talk to ourselves.

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Latest Read: Cyber Crisis

Cyber Crisis: Protecting Your Business from Real Threats in the Virtual World by Eric Cole. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology and PhD in Information Technology from Pace University.

Cyber Crisis: Protecting Your Business from Real Threats in the Virtual World by Eric Cole

Eric is the founder and CEO of Secure Anchor Consulting and today is a member of the Forbes Technology Council.

He began his career as Program Manager & Technical Director for the CIA. His career moved to cybersecurity leadership roles at several companies including his role as Chief Scientist & Senior Fellow at Lockheed Martin.

For over ten years he held leadership positions at SANS including Dean of Faculty and Director of Research; Architecture Director of Cyber Defense Curriculum. He has been interviewed on CNN, Fox, CBS, and NBC. In fact, Eric was one of the authors of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s cybersecurity guide.

The world we live in today post pandemic is different. Most do not realize the ground has shifted under their feet. Eric is simply addressing that while you may read about major cybersecurity attacks perhaps five times a year. However the stories shared certainly indicate attacks are happening every day. Since the pandemic, ransomware attack are occurring every ten minutes.

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Latest Read: Customer Data and Privacy

Customer Data and Privacy: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review. HBR is providing a good series of article addressing how your data is collected and the impact upon your privacy.

Customer Data and Privacy: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review by Harvard Business Review, Timothy Morey, Andrew Burt, Christine Moorman, Thomas C. Redman

For some, this may be rather jarring. Nevertheless, how did Facebook generate $116 Billion in revenue in 2022? Accordingly the sale of ads on Facebook is…. you. Yes, in fact you are what Facebook is selling.

It would also be fair to understand the role of Machine Learning coupled with Data Science that created this revenue stream. Facebook is collecting every ‘Like’ you make, every photo uploaded is scanned with facial recognition and every article posted is data mined.

Add this all up and Facebook is literally sitting on overwhelmingly vast amounts of user data. To their credit, Facebook has become the champion of mining profits from all the data they have about you.

Yet are these companies also building trust with you? They know everything about you, and when combined with ‘free’ apps, the tracking continues. We are aware of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Yet for everyone not living in California, there is a real lack of regulation. This allows companies to remain in control of you.

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Latest Read: Everyday Chaos

Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility by David Weinberger.

Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility by David Weinberger

David holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. He is widely published including Wired, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

He is Co-Director of Harvard Library’s Innovation Lab; Writer-in-residence at a Google AI lab; Senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; Fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; and a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department.

David previously authored The Cluetrain Manifesto, Everything is Miscellaneous, and Too Big to Know. Having read these books, David’s writing both inspirational and spot on regarding how internet technologies are shifting the global world. My only regret is not reading this book the day it hit newsstands. And based upon his previous works, will not make that mistake moving forward.

Everyday Chaos is focusing on artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and a very dynamic internet. Rolling into a somewhat staggering force, these technologies are certainly revealing how complex the world is today. Perhaps the most important message, we now find ourselves facing a digital transformation more unpredictable even by those who created the technologies.

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Latest Read: Trustworthy AI

Trustworthy AI: A Business Guide for Navigating Trust and Ethics in AI by Beena Ammanath. Beena holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Business Administration. She is Executive Director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute and leads Trustworthy AI & Technology Trust Ethics at Deloitte.

Trustworthy AI: A Business Guide for Navigating Trust and Ethics in AI by Beena Ammanath

She has served on the boards of several tech startups, nonprofits and universities. In addition, Beena has extensive global experience in AI and digital transformation, spanning across e-commerce, finance, marketing, telecom, retail, software products, services and industrial domains with companies across a variety of industries. Beena is also the Founder of non-profit, Humans For AI, an organization dedicated to increasing diversity in AI.

Prior to her joining Deloitte, she was a Board Member and Advisor to several technology startups. She has previously also worked with companies such as General Electric, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Thomson Reuters, British Telecom, and more. Beena also serves on the Board of AnitaB.org, AI for Good, and the Advisory Board at Cal Poly College of Engineering. She is a contributing author to HBR’s The 2023 Year in Tech.

Beena should be praised for honestly defining AI in the opening pages of the first chapter. In addition, the deep outline of elements comprising AI is simply a great introduction to AI models and technologies. There is plenty of practical approaches shared to assist leaders in planning and obviously managing risk. AI is literally everywhere. For the general pubic their first direct engagement has been ChatGPT.

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