Gamifiied Skiing
Carv scores turn skiing into a video game
Jay Goldman
Technologist, designer, speaker, and author. Essays on technology, design, and leading complex change.
Subscribe to JayGoldman.com
Get occasional email updates when I write new posts or have things to share. Unsubscribe anytime.
Home/1 Poem/1 Server
A community server for Matt Webb's fantastic Poem/1 clock
Toronto Tech Week 2026
Thoughts from Toronto Tech Week 2026
Everyone has the last job
Everyone thinks they have the last job that AI can't replace.
Reporting for Jury Duty
Finally fulfilling my civic responsibility.
NanoBananaing Heroes
Using OpenClaw + Claude + NanoBanana to make hero images.
The code is not the territory
Caring about the actual code generated by AIs is quickly becoming irrelevant.
CreativeMorningsTO February 2026
Herbert Lui challenged us to rethink our creative commitments.
Writing in Obsidian
A new workflow for publishing content on this site.
Stranger Things Season Five
An appropriate end to a decade of watching.
Building this blog with Claude: a guest post
Claude here. Jay asked me to write about our collaboration building this site—from choosing Astro over Next.js to migrating a decade of Medium posts. Here's what that looked like from my side.
From Forbes: Transformation Transformed — Welcome To The Enterprise Orchestration Era
This post originally appeared on Forbes…
Enterprise Orchestration in Financial Services — Sensei Labs
COVID-19 has been the Great Reset that has changed many long-held expectations and beliefs and leveled many playing fields. Access to…
Aligning C-Suites and their boards for greater resiliency — Sensei Labs
The constant state of evolution requires tight alignment between C-Suites and their boards for successful organizations.
Survival of the Fastest in the Enterprise Orchestration Era — Sensei Labs
Survival of the fastest has never been truer. 52% of Fortune 500 firms from 2000 are gone, and 84% of digital transformations fail.
Piloting the Rocket Ship: Product and Program Launches — Sensei Labs
The last year somehow managed to be both the best and worst of times all rolled into one. Marketing and product teams rode the same…
The Evolving Program Management Office — Sensei Labs
We’ve written a lot about the changing role of the Project Management Office (PMO), bring the old school mentality of managing into the…
Ensuring M&A Integrations Add Value — Sensei Labs
Market downturns are often a prime opportunity for buyers to take advantage of depressed economic conditions and acquire otherwise sound…
Elevate Your Business Process — Sensei Labs
One of my favorite parts of my job is helping to grow the already amazing leaders on the Sensei Labs team. Our culture is perhaps the most…
Prioritizing Procurement Continuity and Resiliency — Sensei Labs
Coming up on the one-year anniversary of North America’s big COVID surprise — we closed our offices on March 8th, but everyone really…
Thoughts on closing our Series A — Sensei Labs
I'm thrilled to share that we've closed our Series A investment, led by Plymouth Growth, to give us the capital required to drive our…
5 Top Problems with Project Management, Part 4: One Source of Truth
This is Part 4 of a series on the top problems with Project Management Tools. See Part 1: Old Tools, New Rules, Part 2: The Illusion of…
5 Top Problems with Project Management, Part 3: Breaking the Cycle
This is Part 3 of a series on the top problems with Project Management Tools. See Part 1: Old Tools, New Rules and Part 2: The Illusion of…
5 Top Problems with Project Management, Part 2: The Illusion of Control
This is Part 2 of a series on the top problems with Project Management Tools. See Part 1: Old Tools, New Rules to catch up.
5 Top Problems with Traditional Project Management, Part 1: Old Tools, New Rules
This post is part one in a five part series on the problems with traditional project management tools. Stay tuned for more!
Hiring Awesome Developers (who happen to be women)
Before you start: it's important to acknowledge that I'm not a woman, a visible minority, underprivileged, or any number of other things…
Can the iPad Pro replace your laptop? Notes from the field
I’m not entirely proud of my current status as Klick’s most frequent traveler, on track this year for about 140 flights. It’s a very…
An ode to the Starbucks app
I've been a fan of the Starbucks app since it launched, immediately ditching any plastic cards in favor of keeping them all in my phone…
Judging a book by its cover: the art of late modern book cover design
Building on yesterday’s story about movie titles, I wanted to share this mesmerizing work by Henning Lederer. Henning is a German designer…
Calling fellow titlephiles: the love of movie titles
You can always tell the design and type geeks in a movie audience — they're the ones geeking out over the opening credits. Also, me, on…
Car2Go’s EcoScore and the Gamification of Driving
We’re a one car family. Our Mini Countryman, which is most often under the command of my wife, is an excellent vehicle for our very urban…
Moving to Medium
Remember blogging? Those were the days. I’ve been running my own hosted WordPress blog for many, many years across a bunch of different…
The World's Worst Cars
Not every car can do what the Tesla Model S has done and redefine automotive excellence for the entire industry. Some cars manage to…
From Robot Turtles to Lasers
Some of you may remember the awesome board game Robot Turtles, which teaches kids to program by laying down cards that move a turtle around…
Play Osmo
Maybe it's because I've been a lifelong 'geek' or maybe because my Dad, a lifelong 'geek' himself, always encouraged my love of STEM from a…
Jeff Bezos and WaPo
Some thoughts on the $250m acquisition that everyone can’t stop talking about.