This is a thoughtful piece by Danny Devriendt. Thank you, my friend. 🙏 Brian Solis is far from a neutral observer in my SXSW story; he’s a friend I’ve known for a long time, and one of the people who helped me -and a whole generation- see the social web for what it really was back in the day. Long before social media became a relentless ad machine, he wrote The Social Media Manifesto, arguing that this wasn’t a new…
Augmented IQ and the New Human Advantage
I lost a fight with the sidewalk the night before my talk at SXSW. Not exactly the kind of opening line you script for your first SXSW keynote in seven years, but there I was in Austin, cut-up but grateful and energized to be back on that stage talking about something that matters more than most leaders realize right now. The talk was called “Augmented IQ: Scaling Human + AI Potential.” It built on a simple but urgent thesis: the…