The FCC just did something that should make every sports league executive, streaming platform, and broadcast network sit up and pay attention. And yet, I’m not sure most people realize just how significant this moment actually is. Here’s what happened: the FCC’s Media Bureau opened a public comment period examining the migration of live sports … Read more
Over the past two decades of writing here, one thing I’ve tried to do is look past the headline and into the pattern. The press loves a good horse race. I prefer to watch the track conditions. Right now, everyone wants to frame AI as model vs. model. Faster. Bigger. Smarter. More parameters. More funding. … Read more
Granola, Hedy, and Timeless by timeOS — and what together they reveal about where ambient meeting intelligence is actually heading. I’ve been running back-to-back calls for decades. Client pitches, investor briefings, media interviews, strategy sessions. For most of that time, the best tool I had was a legal pad and the ability to write fast. … Read more
There’s a difference between ringing the bell on Wall Street and ringing the bell to change Wall Street. If the reports in the Wall Street Journal are directionally right, what Elon Musk is contemplating with a SpaceX IPO isn’t about liquidity. It’s not about ego. And it’s certainly not about needing capital in the traditional … Read more
I have to admit, when I first heard about this, I could not stop laughing. Over St. Patrick’s Day weekend 2026, an AI agent named Rachel made more than 3,000 phone calls to pubs across Ireland. She had one simple question: How much is a pint of Guinness? Only a handful of people realized they … Read more
Most of the “writing tools” conversation is really a features conversation. Faster. Smarter. More accurate. But the reason I care about Wispr Flow and Monologue (by Every) isn’t a spec sheet. It’s that they changed my habits. If you do serious work on a phone, you know the problem: typing is slow, autocorrect is chaotic, … Read more
Sports sponsorships used to be a simple swap: cash for visibility. But the modern sponsorship market is being reshaped by two forces that now sit side by side in every serious deal: measurable commercial performance and societal legitimacy. Together, they are turning sponsorship from a relationship business into a governed system. And, at its core … Read more
None of this should feel unfamiliar if you lived through telecom, mobile, or cloud. In the early 2000s, U.S. carriers convinced themselves that owning the network meant owning the future. They optimized for ARPU, control, and contractual lock-in. Meanwhile, VoIP app companies, OTT operators, and Skype all focused on deployment speed, adoption depth, and scale … Read more
Global sports expansion is no longer a cultural victory lap. It is a hard-nosed capital strategy built for a world where domestic markets are saturated, the cable bundle is decaying, and every new media cycle has to look larger than the last one to keep valuations and leverage ratios from getting ugly. The NBA and … Read more
Most brands still get sports marketing wrong. They write big checks for stadium naming rights, slap a logo on a building, and convince themselves they’ve won. They haven’t. What I’ve learned, first from 24 years inside sports marketing and later from being involved in 63 startup exits across tech, is this: the brands that actually … Read more
