Holiday Inn Express just killed all the Baby Boomers

Millennials Love Automation At Hotels

Here’s an article from Fast Company on the redesign of Holiday Inn Express hotels (only in Europe for now // more on that in a second); the article is kind of odd and written in a coy, flirty way where… Continue Reading

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68 percent of managers AREN’T engaged in their employees’ career development. WTF?

68 Percent of Managers Don't Guide Their Employees' Careers

Right Management — a subdivision of Manpower Group — did a survey about career development and managers’ roles within it. Here are the results. Here’s probably the section you should pop a couple of Ambien before you read: According to the… Continue Reading

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Patrick Pichette (Google CFO) story: Yep, it’s awesome. But uh, he’s rich.

Patrick Pichette

This Patrick Pichette story (he was the CFO of Google) is going a little bit viral today. Here’s the basic rundown. He retired from a plum job way before you’d think an average American male in such a job would retire,… Continue Reading

4,364 people living in London have over $30 million in assets

Where do super-rich people live?

Where the globally uber-rich tend to live. Continue Reading

The incredibly true story of how my fat, lazy ass learned to cook at age 29

A snapshot of three periods of my life: The summer before I turned 21, I lived with five of my best friends in D.C. I couldn’t cook at all. I don’t think we were allowed a meal plan in the… Continue Reading

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We’re about to embark on a generation of narcissists, eh?

Narcissism and Children

“Research shows that narcissism is higher in Western than non-Western countries, and suggests that narcissism levels have been steadily increasing among Western youth over the past few decades,” the authors write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. You… Continue Reading

RIP Sam Simon, part-shaper of many childhoods

Aside from maybe my parents, my wife, some of my friends, and the broader notion of “society,” I don’t think there’s anything that had a bigger effect on my upbringing than The Simpsons. I think a show like Breaking Bad… Continue Reading

Lessons from dealing with an anxious spouse

Lessons from Anxious Spouse

Lest you think I’m out here sharing family secrets in a negative way, let me say off the bat that I talked about writing this post with my wife and she vetted the concept entirely (partially in hope that it… Continue Reading