This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
This shit may blow your mind. Consider: Uber is the world’s largest taxi company. It doesn’t own any vehicles. Facebook is the world’s largest media company. It doesn’t produce any of its own content. Alibaba is the world’s most valuable… Continue Reading
Deep thought from my fat ass at Pilates class this morning, as I struggled to do even 2-3 successful scissor movements: why exactly do we still call people in various organizations “account managers?” I understand what an “account manager” is,… Continue Reading
Two three seeds lost in the first round of the first day of the first block of the NCAA Tournament earlier: Iowa State (who I had to the Final Four in some brackets) and Baylor. Since the switch to a… Continue Reading
I probably write too much on here about “How Millennials Are Different From Baby Boomers And Other Generations,” (i.e. this post) and lo and behold, here-we-fucking-go-again. Here’s a post from Pew Research on generational shifts. You need to start by… Continue Reading
Four aspects ruin work (and relationships, honestly) for people more than any other. What are they? Continue Reading
I’ve never personally met Gary Vaynerchuk and I probably never will, although he does live in the same city as my parents (“… so you’re saying there’s a chance…”). He seems like maybe he’s a tad on the self-promotional side (regarding… Continue Reading
A “95-20 ratio” compares the income of the top five percent of a city (the rich, essentially) with the bottom 20 percent (the poor, essentially) across the 50 largest U.S. cities. If the ratio is very high, that means the… Continue Reading
Feedback is a boondoggle concept for a lot of people; it’s another one of those things that supposedly will be ushered into the mainstream with the advent of millennials in the workforce, although no one is entirely sure. Right now, you… Continue Reading