Here’s more evidence the middle class is dead/dying

Via here:

Your Christmas stuff is likely from Yiwu, a small town in China

Yiwu Is Where Christmas Comes From

Read this, then read this, then watch this:

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A roundup of social media on the Jessica Chambers case

Jessica Chambers Twitter

It seems like the Jessica Chambers case — girl burned alive in Mississippi, with potential gang involvement — is really becoming a big concept on social media. Herein, a brief rundown of some things that have been going on. Remember: at… Continue Reading →

Marketing Trends 2015: O-Sources vs. P-Sources

Marketing Trends 2015

There’s this book called Absolute Value, co-authored by Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen. They’re both professors at Stanford; there’s an article up now at the Stanford GSB website on how “the digital age rewrote consumer behavior,” which is something I think everyone inherently knows/understands,… Continue Reading →

The top 10 skills for a job in 2014, per LinkedIn

Hottest Job Skills 2014

As year-end reviews go, anything LinkedIn does has the potential to be fairly interesting: after all, they have 350 million profiles with information about people’s professional backgrounds, skill sets, experiences, and connections. (And despite that, they probably haven’t made recruiting that much… Continue Reading →

Serial Podcast, Episode 12: With Adnan and Jay, we believe what we want to believe

Adnan Syed Serial

Last night I got wine drunk with my wife — it was the kind of evening where I changed my mom’s ringtone on my cell phone (for incoming) to “Wrecking Ball” — and at one point, we were out on… Continue Reading →

Could there be a tie between Chelsea Bruck, Julia Niswender, and Chelsea Small?

Chelsea Bruck Missing

I wrote about the Chelsea Bruck case back on October 29; she still hasn’t been found — going on close to two months now — and the biggest news in the interim seems to be three families of Michigan missing/murdered… Continue Reading →

National parks are still quite popular, via Facebook and rich people

National Parks Popularity

Facebook did a year in review, as major websites are wanton to do, and they included a top 10 list of checked-in places in the United States. 3/10 of the list is national parks — Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone —… Continue Reading →