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Tony Hsieh, Zappos, Darwin and (maybe) the future of work

If you ask a woman anywhere north of about 16 right now to name a good company for customer service, I’d bet you $10 (and that’s a lot for me, if we’re being open here) that within the first three… Continue Reading

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The five best-performing stocks of 2013 were … Tesla (check), Netflix (check), Twitter (check), Herbalife (check), and … Best Buy?

The first couple seem to make sense — Tesla could be the future of cars, Netflix is just crushing it in every way, Twitter had an IPO this year, and Herbalife, well, at the very least they drop dime on… Continue Reading

What are going to be the big movies of 2014 or, phrased another way, is it the year of Shailene Woodley?

One year turns to the next, and while we make lists of stuff related to the year we’ve just finished, we also look breathlessly ahead. Movies are tough to hit on — release dates can change pretty quickly (for example,… Continue Reading

If you think your NYE is lame, you could always attend the Possum Drop in North Carolina

I was looking around for some weird New Year’s Eve traditions. There’s a handful of articles on this topic right now because Badoo just did a poll on the topic. No. 1 on their list was a tradition in Talca, Chile where… Continue Reading

This Trayvon Martin Nativity scene may have gone a little overboard, yes

John Zachary, a 57 year-old artist, does the Nativity installation for Claremont United Methodist Church every year (he’s a parishioner). This year, the scene features a slumped-over, bleeding Trayvon Martin. Here’s what Zachary had to say, via The Los Angeles Times: “He… Continue Reading

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This whole Black Monday coach-firing stuff has insane repercussions; remember January 2010?

There’s a chance that 10 NFL head coaches could get fired tomorrow (or sometime tonight); apparently Rod Chudzinski (Browns) and Jim Schwartz (Lions) have already been fired, per various Internet reports. Then there’s this… Black Monday coming up pic.twitter.com/xppu7QYwF5 —… Continue Reading

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Would it be objectively possible to pick the best episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” ever?

The short answer to the title of this post is “Probably not,” although many have tried: here, here and here, for example. The reason I think it’d be a challenge isn’t necessarily that there’s so many great episodes — there are —… Continue Reading

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So, what was the best TED Talk of 2013?

TED Talks are fairly awesome. I have the TED app on Roku, and I’d say I’d jam out about two-three a day, with that number being higher if I’m sick (as I am currently). I wanted to figure out the… Continue Reading