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Psychology Today
Story Over Spreadsheet
The convergence of marketing, technology, and psychology

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California Management Review
How AI Can Make Us More Human, Not Less
AI can make us more human by handling routine tasks so people can focus more on creativity, empathy, and meaningful judgment.
The Human OS Library
A curated library of ideas, talks, and tools designed to help leaders stay human, think critically, and navigate complexity with confidence.
The Human OS Library
A curated library of ideas, talks, and tools designed to help leaders stay human, think critically, and navigate complexity with confidence.

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Psychology Today
Story Over Spreadsheet
The convergence of marketing, technology, and psychology

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Psychology Today
How to Manufacture Luck
Creating space for curiosity and unstructured experiences invites more meaningful surprises.

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Psychology Today
The Secret to True Fulfillment
True fulfillment comes from who you choose to share your life with, making it essential to invest in relationships that energize and support you while setting boundaries with those that drain you.

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Psychology Today
The Secret Psychology of Driving
Driving reflects how attention, emotion, and instinct shape our split-second decisions, revealing more about human behavior than we realize.

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Psychology Today
Why Life Feels Out of Control—And How to Take It Back
Life feels out of control when uncertainty overwhelms us, but focusing on small, intentional choices helps restore a sense of agency and stability.

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Entrepreneur
Your Data-Driven Marketing Is Harmful. I Should Know: I Ran Marketing at Google and Instagram
Overreliance on data and metrics can quietly undermine great marketing by ignoring human emotion, intuition, and storytelling, which are often what truly drive connection and long-term impact.

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Entrepreneur
Stop Talking About Empathy, and Start Acting On It
Empathy only matters when it shows up in real actions, from how you treat customers to how you support your team and make everyday business decisions.

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California Management Review
How AI Can Make Us More Human, Not Less
AI can make us more human by handling routine tasks so people can focus more on creativity, empathy, and meaningful judgment.

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California Management Review
Soft-Edge Negotiations in a Power-First World
Trust, empathy, and long-term relationships create stronger outcomes than dominance and force.

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Substack
A personal quest.
Meaning replaces constant striving when attention turns toward relationships and lived experience.

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Substack
Everything Feels Out of Control!
Overwhelm fades when focus shifts from managing everything to prioritizing what truly matters.

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Wharton
Why Brands Need to Practice ‘Nimbleocity’
Brands that experiment quickly and take creative risks outperform cautious, traditional competitors.

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Wharton
How P&G Moved Up the Brand Arc to Win a Gold Medal at Sochi
Emotional connection was built by focusing on the universal story of mothers supporting their athletes.

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Harvard Business Review
How to Lead When Things Feel Increasingly Out of Control
Effective leadership in uncertainty comes from flexibility, long-term vision, and resilience over reaction.

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Speaking Reel
Eric Solomon | Speaker | PepTalk
Even as technology accelerates, the future belongs to those who lead with curiosity, agency, and humanity.

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TEDx
Robots are here. Are we? | Eric Solomon | TEDxRiverdale
When algorithms shape attention and choice, reclaiming agency requires intention, values, and human awareness.

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CR Talks
CR Talks: Storytelling in the Machine - When the Math Men Meet the Mad Men
As machine learning reshapes creativity and consumption, success depends on navigating human–machine collaboration.

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Center for Customer Insights at Yale
Eric Solomon, Spotify: Holding Up the Mirror: Fan-centricity in the 21st Century
Psychology, data, and storytelling come together to reflect people’s habits, moods, and culture in deeply personal ways.

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Hypertelling
Eric Solomon - Hypertelling Keynote
Advertising has evolved into participatory storytelling that unfolds through interaction, context, and shared authorship.
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