Photo from Elizabeth Laraki Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. CEOs say their employees aren’t using ChatGPT and other AI tools at...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. In 1864, with the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, my great, great grandfather William Cyphers started...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. About 15 years ago, Jim Simons was driving to Boston to give a speech at his alma mater, MIT. He had...

Andrew Ross Sorkin shared insights from years of interviewing CEOs at a fireside chat at Cornell University. Sorkin, co-host of CNBC’s Squawk Box, was back on campus this weekend for his 25th reunion. I was there for my dad’s 75th! Sorkin made three...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. It’s called crisis communications for a reason. And, as the global Internet outage last week...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. My mother has a recipe for chocolate oat chip cookies her grandchildren love.  The kids, however, cannot...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. I met Kyle Kazanjian-Amory, CEO and founder of Don’t Tell Comedy, at a show he hosted in a loft in New...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. My father doesn’t bother too much about the Internet but it cares about him. I get direct messages from...

It was 2001 and I was working as the New York bureau chief at Bloomberg News. Mike Bloomberg had just appointed Peter T. Grauer chairman in anticipation of running for mayor. Peter saw me getting coffee in the food court and came over to introduce himself...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. Ben Hills describes the startup landscape in America like this: In D.C. it’s about policy; in San...