Dear Readers: If you are still reading my weekly newsletter, I say “Thank you.” Many of you will undoubtedly have noticed my change in focus from matters of technology to those of spirituality. If you prefer the old format I understand, but I feel this is a direction I am meant to travel and I [...]
Dear Readers: I recently submitted an article to the Wall Street Journal for their regular Saturday "About Face" feature. The column chronicles how various professional have changed their minds. Unfortunately, my piece was rejected. Below is the editor's short note back to me: Dear Mr. Uldrich, Many thanks for passing along your draft, but I'm afraid [...]
The past few weeks and months have been hard. I live in Minneapolis and many of you may recall the political assassination of Melissa Hortman, the speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and her husband this past June. Then, on August 27, two young students were shot and killed at Annunciation Catholic School in [...]
Dear Readers: The French have a wonderful saying: "You can't get 12 months of work done in 12 months, but you can get 12 months of work done in 11 months." As a way of putting this wisdom into practice, I am taking off the entire month of August to clear my head so I [...]
Editor’s Note: I spent the better part of this week in Montana with my colleague, Jeff Appelquist, conducting our 3-day experiential leadership seminar, “Into the Unknown: The Leadership Lessons of Lewis and Clark. This week’s newsletter is abbreviated. Think: In a world first, Brazilian citizens may soon be able to sell their own data. Think [...]
Think Better: Want to think better? Learn to listen better. Here are 8 ways you can begin improving your listening skills right now. Think Optimistically: I will be the first to admit that the advances in AI are poised to create some very serious issues for humanity. It will also, however, create an extraordinary number [...]
Thought Leadership: Earlier this week, I began reading Robert McFarland’s latest book, Is a River Alive? The book explores the transformative idea that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. I wrote about this idea in a 2021 Forbes article, and I am aware that it may [...]
Thought Leadership: Today’s AI leaders, including Sam Altman and Dario Amodio have both issued thoughtful pieces on the future of artificial intelligence in the past week and yet they seem to be missing an obvious point: Both men assume future advances in AI will take place in a relatively stable political environment. I don’t [...]
Editor’s Note: This Sunday, I am traveling to southern Minnesota to deliver my first-ever presentation on “The Future of Faith.” Here is how the talk is being billed: Spiritually, Jack Uldrich identifies himself as a contemplative Celtic Christian. He is also the best-selling author of 13 books and a noted global futurist. In this engaging [...]
In the book “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote the line, “Gradually and then suddenly,” to describe how a character went bankrupt. The phrase also neatly captures how our future is poised to change because of three transformational issues: the burgeoning national debt, accelerating advances in artificial intelligence, and the looming climate crisis. Let’s [...]
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