Social engagement doesn’t matter. Stop measuring it.
As a drunk kid in Vegas once told me (read the post), “We don’t get paid in likes and clicks.” Continue Reading
Fundamental Explainers
This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
What’s the value of being selfish or obstinate?
If I had to sit down and make a list of the biggest changes between age 25 and age 34, I think I’d only be 3-4 items into the list before I arrived at “Meeting more selfish people, daily.” Now,… Continue Reading
Stats about e-mail are often very depressing (** puts rifle up to scrotum **)
We already know that 89 billion business e-mails are sent in a given day (that figure is probably higher for 2014), no one even remotely contextualizes their e-mail (so that everyone assumes everything has to be responded to immediately), e-mail… Continue Reading
Arbejdsglæde, as a word, explains the working world
The general attitude you encounter in most U.S. workplaces is that people dislike their job, aren’t that engaged, don’t love their managers, don’t feel respected, think their manager doesn’t understand motivation — and yet are always busy and don’t have time… Continue Reading
On the Global Livable Cities Index, the first U.S. city doesn’t appear until No. 17
There are about a million and three different ways to rank cities — here, here, and here as examples — but it is broadly relevant to do so, or at least have some metrics assigned to cities. In the 1950s,… Continue Reading
Jessica Chambers was burned alive in Mississippi. Look at Bryan Rudd and Ali Alsanai.
It seems like “missing women” and “gas station” stories almost never end well. Jessica Heeringa is one example; that case is unsolved currently and now, even an act named for what happened around her is on life support. Jennifer Huston was last seen… Continue Reading
Jeff Goins is two-faced and reaffirmed everything is just a sale
Maybe a week after Black Friday, one of my good friends sent me a text. He said that his “Promotions” tab on GMail had gotten 39 e-mails in the past 24 hours, mostly from charities, marketers, retailers, etc. He’s unemployed… Continue Reading
The millennial revolution will come on the back of walkability
Literally every place I’ve ever lived, I’ve looked up the walk score on it before I even considered moving there. In fact, where I live right now — in Fort Worth, about a mile or so from TCU, is probably… Continue Reading