Sep 23, 2016
Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Interview starts at 14:34 and ends at 44:17
"It’ll happen in the cloud, and it will get propagated out to eight, 10, 15, 20 million households that will have the more rudimentary voice enabled [Alexa device], and then suddenly it will become like magic....
Sep 17, 2016
Rowing medalist, challenged reader trying a Kindle
Interview starts at 14:43 and ends at 42:48
I remember walking home from third grade and throwing a workbook away, it was a book that I had made out of paper and was keeping notes in. I threw it in the bushes, because my teacher said, “You’re supposed to take...
Sep 10, 2016
Author of Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids
Interview starts at 8:44 and ends at 41:26
The thing that really hit me was, this is compulsory. None of these kids have a choice. Whatever the cutoff age is, they have a choice, but all of those earlier years they cannot just decide, “I don’t want to go...
Sep 3, 2016
Senior Editor, Amazon.com Books
Interview starts at 17:14 and ends at 44:11
"I’ve heard it said that summer’s a great time for summer reading, but it’s also a great time to sit down with that one nonfiction book that you want to take the time to read. Maybe it’s transitioning a little bit, but fall is...