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Kate O'Neill

@kateoneill.bsky.social

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"Tech Humanist." Future-ready strategy. Founder & CEO, KOInsights.com. Host, The Tech Humanist Show (thetechhumanist.com). Ex-Netflix. Keynote speaker; 6x author (WHAT MATTERS NEXT - now out!); bylines Fast Company, WIRED, et al. Also: bi, vegan, linguist.

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Jun 16

🌟 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

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever coined the phrase "if you want something done give it to a busy person" is on my list

and as soon as I finish the other 200 things on it, they are in big TROUBLE

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 4d

Collective agreement to use 'doomscrolling' instead of 'reading the news' was the most honest linguistic shift of our generation

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 9d

Grateful and honored. Thank you @thinkers50.com.

Kate O’Neill has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Award in Digital Thinking

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 13d

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

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 14d

Are we to be educated again!? We do so need it

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 14d

Rest well, Jane Goodall. What a beautiful and meaningful way you lived your life ❤️

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 19d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 22d

What a time to be alive

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 22d

Ausgezeichnet!

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 22d

One thing I notice is that people are just so angry? And most of the time not at anything useful. Just, like, because they had to wait in a short line, or someone’s baby cried once on a plane. The fuse overall is dangerously short, is what I’m saying

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 25d

This genXer HARD agrees

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 25d

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you, @nybooks.com, for sharing this much-needed quote today:

“New York is not a problem. New York is a stroke of genius.”
—Ed Koch

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 26d

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

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Sep 12

If people cross-post content from one platform to another, is it valid to simply copy and paste your comment on it from one post to another?

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Sep 5

I mean, was there ever any other reason for social media to exist than for moments like this?

My genX heart is kvelling

Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Sep 3

the level of "find out" that is coming for both some states and all of the U.S.A. is so much bigger than I've seen anyone, even the really pessimistic, forecast

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Sep 3

the two americas

BREAKING

Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates

The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.

2 min read

Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines

Governors in California, Oregon and Washington said their states would work together in a time of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Sep 4

…and such small portions!

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Aug 26

Taylor doesn't do anything by accident, so I think we can take the fact that this happened on the day PSLs returned to Starbucks as super-savvy audience insight

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · Aug 22

One of the best convos @annamillsoer.bsky.social and I have had yet on the problematic concept of AI's so-called "hallucinations". Love that we got into how the "mirage" metaphor works better to evoke the complex feelings humans experience in using #AI. www.thetechhumanist.com/2025/08/21/t...

The Mirage of AI Hallucinations – The Tech Humanist Show

www.thetechhumanist.com

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Aug 19

This series of back-and-forth voice messages could have been a phone call

but I’m glad it wasn’t

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Aug 16

oh that side of the issue is bonkers for sure – it's the Economist's choice of headline that has me 🤭

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Aug 16

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“ 🫢

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Aug 15

Florida really is Florida isn’t it?

A woman I met this morning asked when she learned I lived in NYC: “are you going to vote for that socialist?”

Ma’am. The president is doing a fascism, and you’re worried that the *potential* mayor in a city where you don’t live wants to make housing affordable?

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Stephen M.R. Covey's trust-based leadership offers a roadmap for keeping humanity at the center as everything accelerates. Essential listening for anyone navigating leadership in our AI-augmented world.

🎧 thetechhumanist.com/2025/08/07/unleashing-human-potential-with-stephen-m-r-covey/

Unleashing Human Potential with Stephen M.R. Covey – The Tech Humanist Show

thetechhumanist.com

Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · Aug 7

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The future isn't human vs. AI—it's "blended intelligence." But that only works if people trust the systems AND the leaders implementing them.

Command-and-control crumbles when work becomes knowledge-based and creativity-driven.

Unleashing Human Potential with Stephen M.R. Covey – The Tech Humanist Show

thetechhumanist.com