It might take 371 days for your mom to friend you on Facebook
Family dynamics and social media = always potentially dicey. Continue Reading
Fundamental Explainers
This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
Sandra Travis, Maury Travis’ mother, is possibly the worst landlord in U.S. history
If you’ve never heard of Maury Travis, you can watch the video above, or read this or this. He was a serial killer who predominantly murdered prostitutes — potentially as many as 17 — in the St. Louis (Ferguson, Missouri) area… Continue Reading
Ron Johnson, retail semi-legend, just gave an open palm slap to Big Data
The American business culture is often very “What have you done for me lately?” In that sense, you can argue Ron Johnson is a flop. He had big successes in the retail space, most notably with helping Target get into… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: if you have a relatively standard office job, could you theoretically do it from a pub each day?
In many ways, this is a ludicrous discussion, and I want to admit that up front. The largest occupation in America right now is retail, and retail jobs tend to be things you need to be in a physical place… Continue Reading
Here are 10 things you should know before moving to Minneapolis
Photo credit on this post goes to here, with their full Minneapolis page of photos located here. If you like this post, feel free to share it with your friends. Share buttons are at the bottom of the post. … Continue Reading
76 percent of business interactions on social media are “neutral?” That’s boring.
Big organizations may have ruined social in some ways. They rushed in at one point trying to be cool, and now your NewsFeed and Timeline and whatever else can be cluttered with stuff about Fritos. This is a potential tipping… Continue Reading
Maybe the re-rise of the Rust Belt could come on the backs of designers
Check out the map above; it’s all the designers in America, both self-employed and firm-employed, and across a wide spectrum of types of design (architecture, graphic design, etc.) It’s from an article by the great Richard Florida at CityLab that looks… Continue Reading
Microsoft’s Bing World Cup prediction engine on Cortana virtual assistant is 12-for-12 at predicting games
Microsoft added a World Cup prediction engine to the Cortana virtual assistant program on June 28th (about two weeks after the World Cup actually began). Since then, it’s 12-for-12 at predicting winners. That’s absurd, because those 12 games involve Costa Rica’s… Continue Reading