This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
Heisman Trophy is Saturday night. Yaaaaaay. We all know the award is probably a curse professionally, we all tend to know who’s going to win about 200 hours before the TV program even commences, and this year, we got robbed (in… Continue Reading
Just like the toilet, the umbrella is something you probably don’t think about a lot unless it’s annoying you. But just like the toilet, the umbrella is huge business; via The New Yorker, it’s a $348 million industry annually — and that’s just… Continue Reading
‘Tis the season for those year-end trend reports from organizations with a lot of data, and Facebook went big with their post yesterday. Here’s the official post, which is a little generic: for example, it lists the “top 10 life events”… Continue Reading
I came across an interesting article about Dell the other day; essentially, by 2020, they want half of their workforce to be working remotely.(Right now it’s about 20 percent.) The shift to the current 20 percent has saved Dell, by… Continue Reading
At one point in her career as a lobbyist for environmental and educational issues, someone (probably a dude) told Patty Murray that she couldn’t make a difference because she was a “mom in tennis shoes.” She carried that meme through multiple… Continue Reading
Originally written in December 2013. Let’s start here: Nick Saban probably won’t leave Alabama for Texas. (EDIT: Yep, he did not.) On too many different levels, it doesn’t make sense. He could probably make more money, yes, but he’s 62.… Continue Reading
There have been a couple of interesting articles recently about the presence of “viral media” (more on that in a second). There was a profile of Gawker’s Neetzan Zimmerman in The Wall Street Journal, including Zimmerman’s traffic chart as compared to other… Continue Reading
Here it is. Essentially, it claims that the hidden issue for American men is their inability to make lasting friendships (especially white American men, of which I am one). Here’s the essential paragraph (or one of them): To be close friends, men… Continue Reading