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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.

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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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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.

Sand Dune

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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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Afternoon Delight

Afternoon Delight | Jay Rendon and Eric Solomon

Eric Solomon and Jay Rendon explore brands, leadership, and love through an ongoing, thoughtful conversation shaped by experience and curiosity.

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