Thoughts

Essays and articles on media, technology, leadership, and life.

• Why Media Companies Fail

  26 Dec, 2024

  · 3 min read

  The seven self-inflicted wounds that explain why traditional media companies struggle with digital transformation.

• The Seven Deadly Sins of Media

  19 Dec, 2024

  · 3 min read

  Most media companies aren't failing because of external forces. They're accelerating their own demise through seven self-inflicted wounds.

• The Portal Closed Behind Them

  12 Dec, 2024

  · 7 min read

  Media executives are optimizing homepages while their audiences live in feeds, chats, and AI interfaces. The divergence is complete—and irreversible.

• The Portal Problem

  5 Dec, 2024

  · 5 min read

  Why media analytics show 30 seconds on homepages but three hours on TikTok—and what it means for the future of journalism.

• Audience 3.0: The Great Divergence

  28 Nov, 2024

  · 7 min read

  How the relationship between publishers and their audiences is fundamentally transforming, and what it means for the future of media.