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34 articles across HuffPost, Medium, and MediaVillage. Technology, trust, blockchain, and the uncomfortable questions nobody else was asking at the time.
HuffPost
28 pieces · Contributor, 2010–2012
Medium
7 pieces · @ramprate & @tonygreenberg
MediaVillage
3 pieces · Industry Analysis
RampRate
40 pieces · ramprate.com/blog
Enterprise Radio
2 pieces · Podcast Guest
Technology & Markets
(14)Building a Services Market for the Transhuman Era
The Harvard summit talk distilled. What happens when the market meets the singularity.
Business at the Speed of Light: What Is a Millisecond Worth?
Low-latency computing is turning financial markets inside out.
Key Cloud Migration Decisions
The decisions nobody tells you about before you move to the cloud.
Profiling the Public Cloud Buyer's Danger
Public cloud buyers are walking into traps. Here's the map.
Where's My Flying Car... and an Efficient IT Market?
We were promised jet packs. We got vendor lock-in.
Making IT Fit Like a Good Shoe
Custom-fit technology sourcing vs. off-the-rack disasters.
IT Services Markets Crumble — Driving Detroit's Rut, Is the Media Business Next?
The parallels between collapsing auto and IT markets.
When Valuations Don't Mean Valuable
The gap between what something costs and what it's worth.
Save the Entrepreneur — Big Business Keeps Buying Startups, And Killing 'Em
Acquisition as assassination. The startup graveyard.
The Myth of the RFP for Everything at Half Price
The peasants were getting restless. The RFP was a lie.
A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011
Predictions from someone who'd rather be wrong.
The 2011 Cynic Measures His Predictions
The scorecard. Spoiler: the cynic was mostly right.
Microsoft's Underwater Data Centers (Really?)
Something about the water keeps attracting data center builders.
Business At The Speed Of Light — What is a Millisecond Worth?
Low-latency computing is turning financial markets, news, and media inside out.
Trust & Philosophy
(3)Trust Us? Define Trust For Social Networks And Life!
The foundational essay on why trust is the only currency that compounds.
The Triple Bottom Line of Soul > Trust + Empathy in Business + Friendship
Before ESG was a buzzword, this was the math.
Why Good Service Is About Trust — Why Buy MacMall In An Apple Store World
Trust beats convenience. Every time.
Culture & Life
(8)The Act Of Gratitude: Show, Don't Tell
Gratitude as a strategic practice, not a Hallmark card.
Gratitude: The Smuggest Sentiment or the World's Second Most Selfish Act?
The uncomfortable truth about why we say thank you.
Building a Community In a Weekend
What happens when you stop networking and start connecting.
My Other Car Is a Bentley...Not (I Want My Car to Leaf Me Alone)
The electric vehicle manifesto, before it was cool.
Surfing the WWC (The Worldwide Wine Club)
Wine as a lens for understanding global community.
Trust Your Tongue: The Only Wine And Spirits Critic Who Matters
Your palate is the only authority. Trust it.
Scrubbing Our Lives Clean From Dr. Bronner's to Pressure Cookers
The objects that clean us tell us who we are.
Clout vs. Klout
Real influence vs. algorithmic vanity metrics.
Blockchain & Web3
(3)A Historical Perspective on Blockchain
Blockchain isn't the first decentralization movement. What can it learn from P2P?
The Ball and Blockchain: Obstacles to a World-Changing Trajectory
The forces trying to slow down the most disruptive technology since the internet.
From Supply Chain to the Blockchain: Heal the Body, Mind, Earth
Firms using blockchain to reconfigure business, democratize finance, and change healthcare.
Media & Entertainment
(4)Amazon to Beat All Suitors For Hulu?
Called the streaming wars before they had a name.
Jumping Through Hoops With Hulu: Will Hollywood Studios Kill Their Offspring Again?
Hollywood's pattern of eating its own children.
Break Out the Buggy Whips: Is This the Tipping Point for Streaming Video?
The moment streaming stopped being optional.
The Google/Verizon Walled Garden Plan: No Substantive Impact on Net Neutrality
Net neutrality theater vs. the real power play.
Impact & Sustainability
(2)Speaking & Podcast
"Boiling the Human" — Harvard Summit with Ray Kurzweil
Co-presented on the transhuman services market at Harvard's Humanity+ summit
Become An Innovator and Change The World
YouTube talk on impact-driven entrepreneurship and transparency
Innovation Meets Impact — Enterprise Radio
How to think when $100M's are on the line
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