How One New System Can Make You a Superhuman CEO: A Chat with Bouzha Cookman
About 8-years ago, I boarded a flight from JFK to make my way to an island about 30 miles south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It was a welcome break.
I was attending a small, annual, invitation-only gathering of the northeast’s forward-thinking entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, executives, and researchers. The location and name — Nantucket Conference — were fitting. The island started with a partnership of 30 entrepreneurs (tradesman really) and is the inspiration for the Moby Dick saga.
I was approaching my fifth anniversary at the helm of my insurtech company, and I wanted to expose myself to other exciting happenings in the technology industry. I was also looking to rub shoulders with some of the elite leadership of the Boston tech scene. While my company was based just outside of Beantown, I never had the opportunity to enjoy a coffee or break bread with its winners.
The conference held at the Nantucket Yacht Club featured speakers from all walks of life.
One of the most fascinating was a fireside chat, entitled Human 2.0.
The speaker, MIT professor Hugh Herr, the founder of iWalk, a company focused on bringing Biomechatronics to the world. That year, TIME magazine coined him the “Leader of the Bionic Age”…
