Adam Peddicord

Five days of Seattle Tech Week. Hundreds of conversations. Nearly 200 new connections. Then the adrenaline fades, the inbox takes over, and most of the value quietly slips away. The research is clear: the return on any event is created after you get home, not while you are there, yet most attendees follow up on only 20 to 30 percent of the people they meet. This issue breaks down the data on post-event follow-up and gives you a simple playbook to turn conversations into measurable outcomes.

AI is transforming healthcare, but are we overlooking one of its most important costs? We measure ROI, implementation costs, and adoption risk, yet almost no AI business case considers environmental impact. Here's why that needs to change and how healthcare leaders can make better AI decisions before regulations catch up.

A 5-mile hike with no cell service turned into a question: AI was supposed to give us shorter workdays, so why are so many teams working longer than ever? This issue digs into the data on vacation, disconnection, and the 996 overwork culture spreading through AI startups, then into what decades of productivity and health research actually show. The takeaway for leaders is not “work less.” It is that sustainable performance is an operational design problem, and the teams that solve it win.