About Alex
I am an independent tech writer/researcher and a professional speaker. Speaker page/clips here. I often write about sci-fi in the context of business or digital culture. See:
Vancouver Residents Get a Taste of the Future (Wall Street Journal) How ‘Star Trek’ Has Helped Me Solve Workplace Dilemmas(WSJ); How to Find Hope in Dystopian Fiction (JSTOR Daily) What Star Trek: Discovery Can Tell Us About Tech and Social Progress (JSTOR Daily). My non-sci-fi-related writing/speaking tends to be on the following themes
How families navigate tech with kids: See Why Parents Shouldn't Feel Tech Shame (Atlantic) or this much longer list of stories on my site Technology and neurodiversity. See Personal Technology and the Autistic Child (WSJ) and What my son with autism taught me about managing people (WSJ) The future of data and data-driven marketing. See Shady data-gathering tactics (The Verge), Psychographics are just as important (HBR) Productivity and how-to, including both work-related (social media and email how-to) and fun (lots of TV how-to). See So much TV: How Do you Choose (WSJ) or my book, Work Smarter with Social Media.