The Pilot
QOTW Series: If the possibilities were endless, what would you – or your VR avatar – do for a living?
The Breakwater team closes each Monday all-staff meeting with a “Question of the Week” to get the creative juices flowing. QOTWs are posed by team members on a rotating basis and range from prompts on current global issues to the most underrated Halloween candy to imaginary scenarios that call for outside-the-box thinking. Our answers help […]
Don’t Let Russia Defeat Globalization
April 2022 By Steve Weber and Arik Ben-Zvi BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s annual letter to shareholders in late March declared that the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the unprecedented economic sanctions that have cut Russia off from large swathes of the global economy are the last nails in the coffin of late 20th and early […]
QOTW Series: What is the best opening sentence that you’ve ever encountered?
The Breakwater team closes each Monday all-staff meeting with a “Question of the Week” to get the creative juices flowing. QOTWs are posed by team members on a rotating basis and range from prompts on current global issues to the most underrated Halloween candy to imaginary scenarios that call for outside-the-box thinking. Our answers help […]
A Great Transformation – Web 3 Beyond the Market
By Arik Ben-Zvi and Steve Weber A shortened version of this piece was originally published in Noema Magazine. When Karl Polanyi wrote The Great Transformation in 1944 he could have hardly imagined that — nearly 80 years later — the story of Web 3 would repeat nearly verbatim the narrative of state-society-market interdependence that he […]
BWS Top Picks for Super Bowl LVI Ads
Whether or not you thought Super Bowl LVI had the drama and flare appropriate for its Hollywood setting, the famously expensive ads certainly brought the star power. Maybe it’s just us, but the spots this year felt as if they leaned toward the use of celebrity surrogates over the message even more so than usual. […]
QOTW Series: What is your hypothetical personal “moonshot” project?
The Breakwater team closes each Monday all-staff meeting with a “Question of the Week” to get the creative juices flowing. QOTWs are posed by team members on a rotating basis and range from prompts on current global issues to the most underrated Halloween candy to imaginary scenarios that call for outside-the-box thinking. Our answers help […]
How Companies Can Talk More Effectively About Cybersecurity
By Steve Weber and Jim Wyderko Over one Exabyte. That’s how much data is now stored globally on the cloud. That’s over 1 billion Gigabytes – for reference, in 2003, technologists at UC Berkeley estimated the total words spoken by humans since the dawn of time to be 5 Exabytes. These quintillion bytes of data […]
Breakwater Books: 13 Books That Made Us Think in 2021
Whether to escape to another reality, test the limits of our own, or just better understand ourselves and the world we inhabit, the Breakwater staff collectively explored dozens of great books this year. Here’s 13 that made us think: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris Shea Agnew Dan Harris’s path from up-and-coming, cocaine-fuelled newscaster […]
Employees First: Embracing the Shift Toward Worker Power Can Set Businesses up for Reputational Success
By Ben Williams Last year, we explored a relatively recent trend we’d been noticing: a shifting power dynamic within organizations from traditional centers of power – executives, senior staff, and management – toward employees. Our case stemmed from growing evidence of employee confidence in boldly calling out mismanagement, exposing toxic work cultures at senior levels, […]