From April 2013 to April 2014, only 72.9 percent of Southwest flights were on time; that’s the third-lowest in the industry

Admittedly, they have good fares and good customer service — but apparently they don’t take off on time or arrive on time very well. They were at 72.9 percent from April to April (’13 to ’14), which is the third-lowest in… Continue Reading

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Why aren’t direct job goals discussed more during the first-day/first-week onboarding process?

It might be time for an overhaul of the “onboarding” process at most organizations. Continue Reading

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Brief thought exercise: could modern-day San Francisco someday go the way of Detroit?

This isn’t going to be the most informed post of all-time; it’s mostly just a set of potentials and theories. Still, I think it’s interesting to consider. Start here: you can make an argument that, in the pre-war period and… Continue Reading

Walkable urban places, or WalkUPs, could be the biggest structural real estate change since the 1940s

We know what millennials want out of cities, and we know how that influences the most desirable companies to work for, and we even know a little about how it affects domestic migration patterns. Now we know what it’s doing to… Continue Reading

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Was Jennifer Kesse abducted by a member of the military or a construction worker? Or was it Johnny Lee Campos?

Here are the basics of the case. She disappeared from Orlando on January 24, 2006 sometime in the morning (her last phone call was the previous evening at 9:57pm, but based on the condition of her apartment — clothes laid out,… Continue Reading

On health care, patient engagement, and social physics

Last summer, I worked for a pretty large health care organization in between my two years of graduate school. My primary focus/assignment was on fixing the Intranet for one business unit of this organization — made sense, because my background… Continue Reading

Does Robert Aderholt want your children to be fat?

Robert Aderholt is a Congressman from Alabama, and, as a House Appropriations sub-committee chairman, he’s ultimately responsible for setting funding levels on school nutrition programs. You might know that “healthy eating” is a big focus of Michelle Obama — think the… Continue Reading

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Where do people seemingly want to work? In two words: San Francisco

Cities have regularly been of the mindset that if they lower taxes for businesses, said businesses will come running and put up shiny HQ buildings in said cities. In reality, that’s not the case; businesses like to be near available… Continue Reading