Stories
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High Tech, Low Touch
A journey through San Francisco’s transportation layers—from legacy taxis to runaway Waymos—and what it reveals about empathy, experience, and the systems we’re building
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Banana
Times Square has an unnatural resonance, one you cannot become attuned to. It hums from electrified currents pumped into sky-high advertisements. It buzzes from worker bees shuffling across cement pathways. It aches as black and yellow caravans ebb and flow through its arteries. But there is nothing natural here. Nothing grows here. It is a…
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It’s only a mistake if you make it twice
I used to encourage my teams and colleagues to ‘Celebrate Failures.’ Otherwise, we hide shared learnings from one another when we sweep mistakes under the rug in shame. The truth is, we all know this, we all fail from time to time. What’s important is learning and adapting. My idea behind celebrating failures was to…
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A Note on Ego
Recently I have been more in tune with, and listening to the impact of Ego on our imagination. Our early childhood was Ego-less. We felt no shame running naked through our backyards, waving our arms, and singing songs. As children we also experience no limitations in our imagination. We were in tune with nature and…
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No, I’m not that Jesse Friedman.
For over a decade, I, Jesse Friedman, have struggled with the perception of my identity. While this is not a valid identity crisis—I know who I am—it has been challenging to manage the reactions of followers who “Google me.” My efforts to shine as an expert have been overshadowed by the depravity and evil contributions…
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Start Here
Welcome to the official website of Jesse Friedman—the innovator, not that Jesse Friedman. For over 26 years, I’ve been a contributing citizen of the internet: inventor, innovator, author, speaker, and writer. I’ve had a lot to say over the years, but I’ve never done a proper exercise to clearly define what I want this blog…