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Kate O'Neill
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"Tech Humanist." Future-ready strategy. Founder & CEO, KOInsights.com. Host, The Tech Humanist Show (thetechhumanist.com). Thinkers50. Ex-Netflix. Keynote speaker; 6x author (WHAT MATTERS NEXT); bylines Fast Company, WIRED, et al. Vegan, bi, linguist.
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New episode: Dr. @carissaveliz.bsky.social on why privacy is power — and how to build AI that protects dignity and democracy.

Listen:
www.thetechhumanist.com/2025/10/25/d...

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#TheTechHumanistShow #PrivacyIsPower #AIEthics
The Tech Humanist Show with Kate O'Neill promo image featuring guest Dr. Carissa Véliz
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Season 7 of #TheTechHumanistShow is live!

Kicking off with Edward D Crump, co‑inventor of Amazon Alexa. We dig into invention, trust, the human side of voice AI, Holodeck‑level ambition, and why “personal AI” might become your wallet.

Listen: www.thetechhumanist.com/2025/10/24/h...

#AI #VoiceAI
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Grateful and honored. Thank you @thinkers50.com.
Kate O’Neill has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Award in Digital Thinking
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Impressed that @busboysandpoets.bsky.social — my DC fave — is hosting phone banking with support and encouragement and free coffee to phone bankers.

Folks in DC might want to check it out. Thanks for setting a great example, B&P.

www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...
screenshot of email from Busboys and Poets with details of morning phone bank meet-up — same details as available at link
October 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Excited to be speaking at @smartcityexpo.bsky.social in November, but one of the things that fascinates me most about 'smart cities' is just how much can be accomplished with low tech. Like this taxi sign. Light it up when someone needs a ride; simple & effective.

What other examples have you seen?
a taxi indicator light mounted above the building entrance overhang for hailing taxis to the building entrance, in Columbus Circle New York
September 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Daaaang
Image shows a push notification from The Economist saying that Robert F Kennedy Jr wants to make it easier for people who say they were hurt by jabs to sue for damages, and the header of the push notification is “a sharp prick“ 🫢
August 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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omg, maybe Churchill was genAI??!!?!?

huge if true
"Churchill thought a speech without dashes was not a speech but a magazine piece." (Peggy Noonan, On Speaking Well)
July 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Congratulate me, I guess, for somehow being (mis)classified somewhere as the owner of a business someone should be selling private aviation to
screen shot of LinkedIn solicitation about private aviation
July 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Very genAI-coded insight
“When I was young, because I was young once like you, I heard many organ grinders play, and I can assure you no two tunes ever sounded the same, even on the same instrument. That’s how it is, isn’t it? The less love you put into things the more they resemble one another. The same goes for stories, everyone knows them by heart, but when someone tells them with love, I don’t know, they seem new.” — Traveler of the Century: A Novel by Andrés Neuman https://a.co/fw9S2jU
June 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Happy #Pride from NYC 🏳️‍🌈✊🏳️‍⚧️
“Pride in Protest: Keep Protesting” sign
June 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Has anyone else seen this flood of genAI-created gratitude spam show up in your mailbox? I took a quick video scrolling through the many similar messages: they're obviously generated, but what's the catch? Am I supposed to be flattered enough to write back and be ensnared into a scheme of some sort?
June 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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When technology moves fast, what matters most is how we decide to use it.

Honored to be part of this conversation!

#Thinkers50 #TechHumanist #Leadership #WhatMattersNextbook
Kate O'Neill, a bit out of focus in the background, holds a copy of the book What Matters Next out toward the camera (photo by Robbie Quinn)
June 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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This prestigious recognition — alongside the likes of @sethgodin.bsky.social, @kirstinferguson.bsky.social, @hamiltonmann.bsky.social, and other brilliant authors — means the message about human-friendly tech decisions is reaching exactly the right people at exactly the right time.
June 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🌟 AMAZING NEWS! "What Matters Next" has been selected for the @thinkers50.com 2025 Best New Management Booklist!

thinkers50.com/booklists/#b...
celebratory graphic with the cover of What Matters Next: A Leader's Guide to Making Human-Friendly Tech Decisions in a World That’s Moving Too Fast as well as an image of a smiling Kate O'Neill in a yellow blazer gesturing wide, announcing that What Matters Next has been selected for the Thinkers50 2025 Best New Management Booklist
June 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🎉 Season 6 of The Tech Humanist Show launches with
@bariawilliams.bsky.social!

Bärí shares her journey merging law and tech, creating Meta's supplier diversity program, and why her book "Seeing Yet Unseen: A Black Woman Crashes the Tech Fraternity" matters now more than ever.
June 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I was outside the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York courthouse in Brooklyn on January 28, 2017 when Judge Ann M. Donnelly issued the emergency stay against the first one.

Where are we protesting tonight?
a photo of a crowd protesting outside the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28 2017, including a makeshift sign held up that says "Trump is NOT America!"
June 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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meme image of tiny kitten with caption: “not funny i cried”
May 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Reading #CarelessPeople by #SarahWynnWilliams and having to restrain myself from making a side-by-side reading guide for #WhatMattersNextbook in case anyone chooses to read them at the same time. (You should.) Here is just one of many passages in CP that hit quite a few overlapping themes with WMN:
book quote image: "It’s a growth-at-all-costs approach. To me, it seems like a very American thing. When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the US in the nineteenth century, he was on a rickety steamboat that hit a sandbar and capsized, and he nearly drowned. Afterward he found the manufacturers and asked them why they didn’t make the vessels safer. They explained that technological innovation in America happened so quickly there was no point; by the time they made the necessary changes, the boats would be obsolete anyway. Better just to take a chance on what you have. If some drown, no need to dwell, safe in the knowledge that something better is just around the corner. That cheerful recklessness combined with passivity, that forward motion without introspection, that’s what [the global growth] team has.” from "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism" by Sarah Wynn-Williams https://a.co/3hWyoLq
May 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Great, now I’m sad that it’s AI summaries and not cat pictures being added to every search
meme kitten (white and fuzzy with black spot over one eye and wee pink ears) with the caption “not funny, i cried”
April 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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"if you splort a banana you might snarfle the peel"
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April 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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On Earth Day, a reminder that our most innovative solutions must work in harmony with the natural world. As we develop AI and emerging technologies, let's ensure they amplify our capacity to protect and restore our planet, not accelerate its decline. 🌲 #EarthDay
a beautiful forest scene with a bench
April 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Amid times of social and technological upheaval, Easter — both through its historical Pagan origins and its religious reinterpretations — offers a reminder of an essential truth.
That truth is this: (1/4)
daffodils
April 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Homework assignment for our present moment:

☑️ Get a better handle on trade policy
“Politicians offer up the intuitive upsides of a policy choice, but obscure its less obvious downsides. They bamboozle with numbers that have another meaning. So while tariffs feel like they are taxes on foreign producers, they are actually also taxes on local buyers. Shutting out foreign products or workers may feel like it will create jobs, but it can actually kill productivity, growth and innovation. You might think scrapping a 10% tariff would lower supermarket shelf prices by 10%, but it will hardly alter them at all. Over and over again, the natural and intuitive assumption is wrong.” — Why Politicians Lie About Trade... and What You Need to Know About It: 'It's great' says the Financial Times by Dmitry Grozoubinski https://a.co/13IVe73
April 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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UPDATE:

🎶 REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD 🎵
iPad!
April 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM