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Do we shape the future or does it shape us? That’s the core question in Brian Solis (https://briansolis.com/) ’ new book, Mindshift (https://briansolis.com/books/) which provides lessons for corporate executives in transforming leadership and driving innovation. Like so many other futurists, Solis’ work focuses on how we can become irreplaceable in…

As a longtime Harvard Business School professor and the former chief marketing officer at Aetna, David C. Edelman is all too familiar with both the dangers and opportunities of personalized technology. In Personalization (https://www.amazon.com/Personalized-Customer-Strategy-Age-AI-ebook/dp/B0CT49NK2V?ref_=ast_author_mpb) , his new book, co-authored with Boston Consulting Group managing director Mark Abraham, Edelman focuses on…

Last week, we featured an interview with the leftist American theologian, Jim Wallis, who warned about the false white gospel (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2212-jim-wallis-on-the-false) of contemporary Christian nationalism. And we return to the existential dangers of American religion today with Talia Lavin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talia_Lavin) whose new book, Wild Faith (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/) , warns that the…

Last week, we featured an interview with the leftist American theologian, Jim Wallis, who warned about the false white gospel of contemporary Christian nationalism. And we return to the existential dangers of American religion today with Talia Lavin whose new book, Wild Faith, warns that the Christian right is actually…

The 2024 winners of the Nobel prize for Economics were announced (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/business/nobel-economics.html) this morning. One of the winners was the MIT economist Simon Johnson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Johnson_(economist)) , who, as the co-author (with his MIT colleague Daron Acemoglu) of Power and Progress (https://www.amazon.com/Power-Progress-Thousand-Year-Technology-Prosperity/dp/1541702530) , appeared on KEEN ON just over a year…

Earlier this week, the prominent African-American broadcaster and writer, Tavis Smiley, came on the show to voice (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2215-tavis-smiley-on-why) his support for Reparations to correct the past racial injustices in American history. The Kentucky based historian, Joel Edward Goza (https://www.joeledwardgoza.com/) , author of Rebirth of a Nation (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802884312/rebirth-of-a-nation/) , agrees with…

In her quest for the White House, it seems as if Kamala Harris is doing everything in her power to disassociate herself with liberal ideas. So what, exactly, has happened to liberal politics in the United States today? That’s exactly the question which the excellent young George Washington historian, Timothy…

It’s been a strange week in tech. The Nobel prizes in both Chemistry and Physics went to prominent former or current Googlers, and yet the tech news cycle has been dominated by the U.S. government’s intent to break up a seemingly prostrate Google. Keith Teare and Andrew, in their regular…

As a Harvard trained pediatrician as well as television writer and producer, Neal Baer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Baer) has particularly interesting take on the moral, policy and ethical challenges of CRISPR gene-editing technology. Baer - He is best known for his work on the television shows Designated Survivor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_Survivor_(TV_series)) , ER (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER_(TV_series)) and…

Why are black men more likely to vote for Donald Trump than black women? According to Tavis Smiley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavis_Smiley) , the syndicated radio host and best selling author of many books about black America include his latest Covenant with Black America - Twenty Years Later, (https://www.amazon.com/Covenant-Black-America-Twenty-Years-ebook/dp/B0D2TMFG4D?ref_=ast_author_mpb) it’s because some black…