Christopher Wink

Thirty years of research says sports mega-events don't drive growth. Newer leagues aren't trying to, and that's the point.

A modern spring cleaning playbook for protestors, civic technologists and the extremely online from Washington Post privacy expert Aram Zucker-Scharff.

New Jersey's innovation team cut unemployment applications from 4.5 hours to 25 minutes. It's proof that earnest government IT can work in our partisan political age

Five years into America's post-pandemic startup surge, Census data reveals a troubling pattern: More people are starting businesses, but fewer of those businesses are becoming employers.

The United States thrived on stories of opportunity. In these grumpy times, losing that shared identity threatens more than startups.

We fed 10 years of archived Technical.ly comments into Google's NotebookLM. The fights we were having then sound uncomfortably familiar now.

After two days with 350 ecosystem leaders from 35+ states, here's what we know about storytelling strategy for place-based economic development.

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I just won a bet against an AI-enthused venture capitalist, and took his double-or-nothing that it will be true five years from now too.

After three years and feedback from nearly a thousand residents, a 96-word statement imagines what the city should become by 2276.