Marshall Kirkpatrick's thoughts

I love the idea of Observe, Orient, Decide, Act but I don’t go through it deliberately very often and I think part of it has been a lack of clear definition of Done in the Observe step.

Microsft’s CEO posted an article in X yesterday about how the real value of AI for organizations is not in what the AI model can do for you, but in the learning loops you can architect between your knowledge, the AI you use, and back again.

Nonprofit Quarterly ran a post Friday offering a really inspiring case study of a group of elder care advocates that used a sub-$10K annual budget to mobilize $200M in public investment for improved care of of elders.

The most quick-and-dirty foresight model that futurists use is called In-casting.

Five Coalitions, Five Perspectives — Actor Framing Matrix Full screen Five Coalitions, Five Perspectives (at least) At the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, five distinct actor blocs used the same word — “transition” — but loaded it

In many fields, big improvements are coming from a new strategy: closing the gap between what systems already know and what information they can use to make decisions.

Azeem Azhar asked members of his community for their current favorite ways to use various AI tools, and I thought I’d share my current list publicly here.

The holy grail of AI for many of us is to chat with the notes we’ve taken over the years, isn’t it?

Techmeme, November, 2016 I’m excited to say that after 5+ years working at Sprinklr, the market leader for customer experience management and social media marketing for the world’s biggest organizations, I have resigned from my job and I’m soon on to my n…

I’ve started contributing to a new collaboration that I couldn’t be more excited about.

I am always struggling with the relationship between aspirations and capacity, something I’ve really only grown aware of in recent years.

A friend asked me recently what some of the core principles are in my note taking and review system.

Data apprentice sought.

In a time of information overload, careful curation is a way any of us can add value to the the lives and minds of our peers.

I’ve set up thousands of alerts over my career as a journalist, entrepreneur, and now marketer.

This is a time of big change – but at least in our individual lives, the changes most likely to stick are those we each choose to make.

I love my job.

I attended SXSW 2019 with my employer Sprinklr, and one of the sessions I got a lot out of was titled How Data is Revolutionizing the NFL. I took notes on paper and now that I’m back in the office, I transcribed some of the most interesting notes from t…

I’m not going to write yet another post about how to grow your blog subscribers (in my experience working for blogs like TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb, our key tactics were to write regularly and to break news on topics of widespread interest) but instead I…

Information overload is a defining challenge of our time.