Bob Sullivan’s podcast projects

One of my favorite subjects is the problem of shortened attention spans and the fallacy of multitasking in the digital age.  Tech competes for our eyes and ears perhaps thousands of times each day.  The average worker only gets a few moments to focus on something without being interrupted.  Even [Keep reading]

“Working too hard can give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack. You oughta know by now.” It’s the official start of summer, and if you haven’t planned your vacation yet, you aren’t alone.  Americans are terrible at taking vacations, terrible at relaxing — terrible at shutting down and rebooting. I think I [Keep reading]

Does your power company know when you get home at night? Does it know how often you use your microwave oven?  In this week’s week’s episode of So, Bob, we examine the sometimes controversial topic of smart meters. They have great potential to help cities manage the increasing power demands [Keep reading]

Every once in a while, a passion project becomes something real. And I’m over-the-moon to share with you news of our new podcast, called “So…Bob?” — a weekly conversation about the unintended consequences of technology.  I haven’t been this excited about a new project since the birth of The Red [Keep reading]

  Today concludes the Equifax hack podcast. But the story of the Equifax hack is much bigger than a tale of lost Social Security numbers. It’s about corporate greed.  Exploitation of a natural resource (us) for gross profit margins.  It’s about control.  Epidsode 6 zooms out and returns to the [Keep reading]

If you’ve ever been wronged by a large company and wanted to do more than shake your angry irst at a building, you’re going to enjoy meeting Jessamyn West.  When the Equifax hack hit, she wanted to do more than whine to friends and family.  She wanted justice.  So she [Keep reading]