Josh’s experience at the intersection of technology, media and business began at Forbes Magazine, where he chronicled the brainiacs and billionaires behind the turn-of-the-century tech upheaval, while opening Forbes’ Bay Area office. A contributing editor at Wired Magazine for six years, Josh briefly expired while volunteering in a NASA hypergravity endurance experiment. His Wired story “Drug Test Cowboys,” about professional pharmaceutical trial participants, was optioned by Comedy Central. He has also written for Vanity Fair, Outside, and shelfloads of other publications. He also worked as a copywriter for advertising juggernauts Wieden + Kennedy and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. Josh graduated from Yale in 1992 with all-Ivy honors in lacrosse and a BA in English. His efforts to dunk a basketball are the subject of Dunkumentary, a documentary that screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner. From 2010 to 2014, Josh served as president of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco’s INFORUM division. Josh is both Chief Executive Officer at Attention Span Media and Editor in Chief at Attention FWD.
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Sports: What will be the “New Normal”? Read MoreAs professional sports leagues and organizations scramble to re-open without putting staffers, fans and players in danger, every day brings a flood of new (and often contradictory) announcements from health authorities and municipalities.Sports
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Around the World in 26 Steps Read MoreEven after covering the technology industry for 20 years, I struggle with explaining the nature of exponential increase to people. That’s probably because I struggle to appreciate it myself.Sports
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Regeneration is the Future Read MoreSaving The World Will Take More than Sustainability: Why Regeneration is the Future.Food
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Sport + Blockchain = a Better World Read MoreHow blockchain will fortify the global sport ecosystem.Sports
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The Future of Augmented Reality in Sports Read MoreAR time machines will provide their users – coaches and players – with a look into the crucial seconds and fractions of a second directly ahead.Sports