While this is about the phone call, it has broader implications for how knowledge workers manage the information that lives and dies, inside phone calls. Every day, business happens over the phone. Deals get shaped. Problems get solved. Relationships get built or broken. And then, almost universally, the details evaporate. Not anymore. Today I built … Read more
Sports Tech Has a Discovery Problem. I Built DevLocker.dev to Fix It. I’ve spent most of my career around markets that were early, fragmented, fast-moving, and misunderstood. That includes telecom. That includes collaboration. That includes developer platforms. And long before much of that, it included sports. What I’ve learned over the years is simple: every … Read more
The news that Arsenal has signed a global partnership with Meta, bringing Facebook and WhatsApp further into the club’s commercial and fan engagement engine, is more than just another football sponsorship. It is a reminder that communications platforms have always sought cultural distribution to accelerate network effects. We have seen this before. In the early … Read more
Every so often, a new idea comes along that is not just a product feature or a cost-saving tweak, but a real architectural shift. Anthropic’s Advisor Strategy is one of those ideas. At its core, the concept is simple. You let a faster, lower-cost model do the routine work. When something complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes … Read more
There is a moment in every technology cycle when one acquisition changes everything. Apple buying NeXT was one. Apple buying Beats was another. Both looked odd to outsiders and obvious to insiders. The next one on that list should be Zapier. Here is why this matters right now. We are living through the quiet demolition … Read more
Remember the “Soup Nazi” in Seinfeld. He would say, “No soup for you.” Well, it sounds like the Los Angeles Dodgers just became the “Ticket Nazis.” From an experience standpoint, I’ve crossed the lines of sports and tech for years. I’ve also handled crisis management for brands large and small. Those who avoid controversy do … Read more
When you have been around sports, telecom, media rights, and more than a few boardrooms, you start to recognize something very quickly. Marketing wants velocity. Legal wants certainty. Nowhere does that tension show up more clearly than around NCAA tentpole events like March Madness and the Final Four. I have watched this movie before. Different … Read more
The business of sponsoring college sports used to be relatively straightforward. You wrote a check, aligned your brand with a program or championship, activated around game day, and measured success in eyeballs and affinity. Today, that model feels almost quaint. What’s replaced it is a fragmented, fast-moving, and increasingly risky landscape where marketers, lawyers, athletes, … Read more
A Complete Guide to the AOC’s Producers The Patriarch Domaine d’Aupilhac — Sylvain and Désirée Fadat Start here. Always start here. Three generations of Fadats have farmed the lieu-dit known as Aupilhac since the 19th century. It was Sylvain who registered the domaine as an independent producer in 1989. What he built since then is … Read more
I’ve been going to Montpeyroux for thirty years. Long before most wine writers knew how to spell it. Long before the natural wine crowd discovered it. Long before the scores caught up to what the glass was already telling you. In 2007 Helene Malabed and I were married there. 100 people gathered, some local, some … Read more
