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Connecting Families Through a Shared Reading Experience
Aaron Neuenschwander is CEO of Readeo, an online platform helping families stay connected by combining video chat with kid's books.
Mark Eckhardt On Creativity, Inspiring Others, and Dealing with Racism
Mark Eckhardt is the CEO of COMMON, a network which accelerates the launch and growth of businesses that take care of the planet and all the creatures on it.
Kate Cordell & Ken Knecht on Creating Better Mental Health Care Models with AI
Bringing mental healthcare full circle and treating patients as complete humans by using AI to identify treatments that work for similar types of people, and assist the story-telling process between patients and providers.
Brady Nash and Empowering Small Businesses to Win
Peter Jumrukovski and The Art of Setting Goals
Dan Offner on Creating a Platform to Get Startups Started
Dan Offner founded O&A, P.C., a venture and corporate law firm for technology and content that represents early stage, growth companies, and established tech companies as well as venture firms.
Lisa Arie on Taming The Unconscious Mind To Find Freedom
From the word of advertising to the middle of the CO plains. How horses changed Lisa Arie’s life.
Leo Rusaitis on How Information Fosters Curiosity and Technology Bridges Gaps
now teaching a seminar at UCLA called Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe, which focuses on the most important unresolved problems in physics and sciences in general. Starting with the arrow of time, dark matter, and the absurd weirdness of quantum mechanics.
Peter Abraham on Storytelling, Marketing, and Innovation
Peter Abraham is a marketing specialist with years of experience creating compelling content for brands. He has spent time both on the agency side and as a CMO, which gives him a unique point of view.
Sandy Marshall and Inspiring the Next Generation of Women in STEM
Sandy Marshall is the founder, CEO, and visionary of Project Scientist, a national nonprofit that turns girls ages 4 to 18 onto science, technology, engineering and math. She’s passionate about igniting girls’ confidence that a STEM career is obtainable for any girl.
WTF is an NFT? Why I Paid $12,000 for a Sharpie Doodle
This piece I purchased is my first NFT, which stands for Non-Fungible Token. I’m going to do my best with unpacking all of this, so let’s start with this funky word “fungible.”
Amy Giddon and Creating an App to Spread Empathy
For many, it's more likely to have hundreds or even thousands of followers that know only your persona instead of a best friend who knows who you are with no filter.
Tian Mu on Building Better Video Games & Putting Shoes on the Homeless
Tian visits the shelters himself and personally writes emails to each customer with a photo of himself at the shelter that received the shoes.
Scott Brown on Inventing Educational Games, The Creative Process, and Entrepreneurship
Scott Brown has over 12 years of experience in the toy and game industry and has helped design, develop and launch over 150 products.
Emily Jensen-Schvaneveldt: Research on Healthy Relationships with Digital Media
Emily is all about creating healthy relationships with these products and services. After all, isn’t that really the only sensible approach?
Frank Gjata on Empowering Messages that Encourage Conscious Living and Reminders of Impermanence
Frank Gjata, founder of Conscious Ink, is dedicated to creating innovative tools that support people (including himself) to wake up, live consciously and enthusiastically love the life we live.
Aaron LeMay and The Gamer's Way - From Making Halo to Just Being Here to Help Humans
A boy from small-town Texas is introduced to Pong and Dungeons and Dragons by his parents. As a result, he quickly starts to see all of life as a game, which drives him to become a designer and developer in the game industry.
Vipe Desai on Activism, Disruption, and Democratization to Save our Oceans
Sustainability is at the top of our list for ways technology and new media can create meaningful positive change. We recently had the pleasure to do work for The Ocean Institute and their Board Chairman, Vipe Desai.
This Was the Year I Almost Walked Away from Tech
On January 6th, 2021, I was ready to step away from working in tech and digital. Not in a contemplative way. I actually started writing my notes for the conversation I planned on having with my business partner.
Why is building apps so f*cking expensive?
Like building a structure, software requires teams of specialists performing very time-intensive tasks.