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Just learned this today: Amazon has an entire landing page for “not on Netflix.” A shot across the bow? Perhaps. It’s kind of interesting broadly, though: five-six years ago, you would maybe kinda view Amazon and Netflix as business rivals — Netflix primarily… Continue Reading
I’ll keep this one relatively brief. If you’ve read this blog, you know a little bit about my graduate school run and some of the issues with getting a job afterwards — notably, I wrote about it here, here and… Continue Reading
From an article that’s been popular on Harvard Business Review for the past week (and yet, depressingly, I feel no one with an office job will actually follow the advice of): If you’re working in the kitchen of Anthony Bourdain, legendary chef… Continue Reading
One of my good friends is Dutch, so I’m biased in some ways here — but consider this to begin: The Netherlands have appeared in 10 World Cups so far, holding the record of losing the most finals without managing… Continue Reading
Via Quartz, which is in turn via a 2013 survey done by the good folks over at The Knot, we now have an idea that the average cost of an American wedding is about $29,548. In the 1930s, a wedding cost $392. Before you… Continue Reading
A lot of people on LinkedIn recently have been sharing different memes / blackboards / content around the idea of “H2H” marketing — meaning “human to human,” as opposed to the conventional ideas in the space, which have long included… Continue Reading
Via Quartz, consider this. This is typically how a supermarket is laid out in the United States: But this layout below belongs to Sprouts Farmers Market supermarkets, which are currently mostly in the Southwest: See the difference? Typically when you enter… Continue Reading
There’s a whole boatload of emerging context on the world of millennials vs. the world of their parents and grandparents, and some of it — such as aspects about where to live and what’s desirable in cities — seems logical,… Continue Reading