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Welcome to the Rooms Where It’s Actually Happening
Your guide for navigating the intersection of technology, democracy, and the decisions shaping our world.
Jan 28, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Off-the-Record Briefing: January 2026
How the ground is shifting under AI, media, and trust.
Jan 10
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Katie Harbath
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What I’m Reading Ahead of the January Briefing
In 2026, I’m launching something new: a regular Off-the-Record Briefing — a short, paywalled synthesis of what I’m seeing across clients, platforms, and…
Jan 7
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Katie Harbath
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Anchor Change in 2025
A Year in Review (and What's Next)
Dec 23, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Mapping Power: Navigating Tech and Systems Change
Watch now | A conversation with Charley Johnson on seeing systems clearly, shaping the future intentionally, and redefining independent work.
Dec 22, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Most Popular
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From Seat 1D to CNN: My Viral White House Photo
Oct 24, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Careless People is Careless
Mar 17, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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The Future of our Information Environment
Oct 9, 2024
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Katie Harbath
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When Everyone’s Talking, Who Gets to Hold the Mic?
Apr 16, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Off the Record Briefing
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Off-the-Record Briefing: January 2026
How the ground is shifting under AI, media, and trust.
Jan 10
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Katie Harbath
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Tech/Politics
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Pantone's 2026 Color Choice Is More Political Than You Think
Color forecasting isn't just aesthetics—it's emotional intelligence that predicts how people will show up, who they'll trust, and what messages will…
Dec 8, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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The 10 Political Digital Trends I’m Watching for 2026
The only thing I can guarantee is change. The best election campaigns will evolve and pivot quickly.
Nov 5, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Scaling the Personalized Touch: Insights from Tech Earnings and Keynotes
What the Magnificent 7—and their orbit— told us about agents, shoppable feeds, and the new human-AI division of labor in recent earnings calls and…
Oct 30, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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From Seat 1D to CNN: My Viral White House Photo
What a last-minute upgrade and a quick instinct taught me about transparency, timing, and the power of noticing.
Oct 24, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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From Boomers to Gen Alpha: Five Generations, Five Internets
Why understanding how each generation experiences the web is key to the next phase of communications
Oct 22, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Anchor Change Podcast
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39:12
Mapping Power: Navigating Tech and Systems Change
Watch now | A conversation with Charley Johnson on seeing systems clearly, shaping the future intentionally, and redefining independent work.
Dec 22, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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The Impact of EU Regulation on Political Campaigns
Watch now | Clare O'Donoghue Velikić unpacks how Europe’s regulatory wave is reshaping political advertising and digital campaigning
Dec 18, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Bridging Generations: Marketing to Gen Alpha's Diverse World
Listen now | Michelle O'Grady with Team Friday on how identity, culture, and behavior are reshaping the next era of brand strategy and civic engagement.
Dec 11, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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44:31
The AI-Energy Nexus Powering the Future
Sarah Hunt walks us through how to prepare for the massive energy and infrastructure demands of AI—and why getting this right is critical
Dec 4, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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33:42
How Are Ethics Shaping the Future of Journalism and Tech?
UW-Madison's Katy Culver and Stanford's Rob Reich join to discuss how the worlds of reporting and technology are colliding the philosophical questions…
Nov 25, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Uncharted: A How-To Guide
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The Next Phase of ChatGPT: A Personalized Feed
What my pulse feed looked like on Sunday.
Oct 6, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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How to Edit Without Losing Your Voice Using AI
Make AI a co-editor so your writing is sharper, clearer, and still unmistakably you
Sep 29, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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How to Summarize Your Metrics and Spot Patterns with AI
Turn raw numbers into clear insights, reflection questions, and next steps
Sep 22, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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How to Use Tarot + AI to Strengthen Intuition in Strategic Planning
Tarot pulls can help unlock patterns, ask sharper questions, and bring fresh perspective into your planning
Sep 15, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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How to Turn a Brain Dump into a Strategy Using AI
The first post in my refreshed weekly How-To series — simple, actionable experiments to make AI your thought partner at work and in life.
Sep 8, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Trust & Safety
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The State of Online Safety in Social Media
How generative AI, global regulation, and shifting user expectations are transforming trust and safety faster than the systems built to manage it.
Dec 3, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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The Hard Choices About Speech
From boardrooms to Slack channels, managing speech has become a leadership challenge
Sep 24, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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In the Arena: What I Saw at TrustCon 2025
What I saw, what I’m struggling with, and why I’m still showing up
Jul 30, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Overlords of Overwhelm: How Tech and Trump Are Shaping Our Chaotic Future
What Meta’s latest moves signal about the future of tech and politics.
Jan 15, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Meta Runs Back Towards Politics
Zuckerberg Announces Major Changes to How It Handles Content
Jan 8, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Career Advice
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The Blank Slate of 2026
Starting fresh while honoring everything that brought you here
Dec 10, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Finding Voice in a Changing World
When silence feels safer than speaking, what does it mean to keep showing up anyway?
Sep 17, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Postcard from 2050
After today, we’re closer to 2050 than 2000
Jul 2, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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What You Don’t See
On producing through burnout, saying yes when I meant no, and why I’m craving a slower summer
Jun 18, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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My Go-To People and Sources
A not-too-overwhelming, always-evolving list of people, podcasts, and resources that shape my work and worldview
Jun 16, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Lifestyle
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Character Development: Building Myself at 45
Reflections on turning 45 and still being "under construction"
Nov 12, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Final Summer Postcard: Words, Crabs, and Change
What I learned about writing, resting, and working from anywhere this summer.
Aug 27, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Notes from the Slow Lane
The joy of the journey during my August reset
Aug 20, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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The Slow Lane Strategy
Why stepping back can spark more progress — and how I’m using August to reset my work, creativity, and plans for the future.
Aug 13, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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August Already?
I blinked and suddenly it was August.
Aug 6, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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What I'm Reading
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What I’m Reading Ahead of the January Briefing
In 2026, I’m launching something new: a regular Off-the-Record Briefing — a short, paywalled synthesis of what I’m seeing across clients, platforms, and…
Jan 7
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Katie Harbath
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My Favorite Books of 2025
What I read, what I learned, and what I'm still thinking about as we close out the year
Dec 17, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Multitasking Equals 32-Hour Day, The Philosophy of Unreasonable Hospitality and Swisher on Covering Tech
Ten stories that caught my eye this week
Nov 9, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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How power, platforms, and people are all adapting to the next wave of AI
The stories that caught my attention this week
Nov 2, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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Skill Within A Viral Moment, AI Isn’t Search and EU News Outlets Hurt by Meta Ad Ban
Ten news themes that caught my eye this week plus a replay of the live I did about the White House photo that went viral
Oct 26, 2025
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Katie Harbath
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