Welcome to Techno Sapien on Substack
This is Techno Sapien, a newsletter about how technology makes being human better.
This is Techno Sapien, a newsletter about how technology makes being human better. This is the Substack home of Mark Palmer. I’m defecting from my personal blog, www.techno-sapien.com, in favor of more seriously committing here. The name Techno Sapien is a spin on Homo Sapien: Homo Sapien means "wise human”; this blog is about how technology can make being human better.
About me: As former CEO of StreamBase and executive, general manager, M&A lead, and CPO at TIBCO, I’ve led the creation of 17-time category leading products, according to Gartner or Forrester, in data science, data virtualization, visual analytics (Spotfire), MDM, ModelOps, and streaming analytics. I’m a board advisor for Correlation One, the Data Visualization Society, and Talkmap, and I advise venture capital and private equity.
I was named a “Technology Pioneers that Will Change Your Life,” by Time Magazine, World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and CDO Magazine’s Leading Voices in Data.
I love to write. I’m the co-author of “10 Things to Know About ModelOps” and write for communities I love, like Nightingale from the Data Visualization Society, the Data Leadership Collaborative by Tableau, Towards Data Science on Medium, and Forbes.
Start Here! I’ve published hundreds of blogs, bylines and videos—one a week—for almost three years. If you just stumbled upon me, try these:
Can data literacy help rebuild the vanishing middle class? published in the Data Leadership Collaborative community, sponsored by Tableau.
Start with the Hero, not the Story on Nightingale. This article is about how to think about storytelling with data.
The Purpose of Technology wonders: what’s the point of technology? It helps extend life, restore sight, and lift people up.
What is the Value of Data Visualization? I’ve recently started to make 3-4 minute Youtube videos to explain ideas in a new medium. Check it out!
Why You Should Learn about Streaming Data Science on Medium, about real-time predictive analytics.
Decentralized Data Governance as a Center of Excellence is about how to create a culture of empowerment and learning with data in the enterprise.
When You Suddenly Become Mom and Dad is about some learning from the experience of my wife dying at 43 when when my kids were 6 and 4.
Connect! I post and article a week here and on LinkedIn and frequent videos on my YouTube channel. Follow me there or subscribe to this blog below.