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Roi Carthy has been a mover and a shaker in the Israeli tech scene for years. Most recently he joined as head of marketing for Shine, a smart ad blocker…

Shine’s Roi Carthy talks about media and peace

A guy like Ralph Clark has a tough job: if all goes according to his business plan he’ll put himself out of business. He is the CEO of ShotSpotter, a…

ShotSpotter CEO Ralph Clark talks about the future of city surveillance

I’m a really lucky guy. In the course of this work I get to talk to a lot of my personal heroes and my favorite so far has been Ruben…

Listen to cartoonist Ruben Bolling talk about Trump, art, and cartooning

Joey DeVilla is my blogging hero. He’s run his blog for most of two decades and he’s worked at Microsoft, Shopify, and Tucows. Most recently he’s taken on the mantle…

Accordion Guy Joey DeVilla talks the future of culture and IoT

If you’re in a startup or even plan to sue one, Chaos Monkeys is the book to read. Antonio Garcia Martinez is a former physics major turned Wall Street quant…

Inside the ape cage with Antonio Garcia Martinez, author of Chaos Monkeys

In my on-going Technotopia series I’ve been talking to designers, coders, and journalists. This time I talk to business professor Raj Raghunathan author of If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t…

Author Raj Raghunathan talks about what it takes for smart people to be happy