Is social media ultimately more an engagement platform or a traffic driver?

A couple of nights ago, I read this “It Takes 45 Days To Send A Single Corporate Tweet” article and thought to myself: Well, this won’t really engender much more respect to the social media process. Then I read this piece… Continue Reading

Is it just me, or did Ted Chaough and Joan Holloway’s storylines feel kind of tacked on to Mad Men Season 7 (Part 1)?

When Mad Men comes back for the final episodes, will Joan be a bigger part of the picture? Continue Reading

Brief thought exercise: in a way, is actually having a child more selfish than not having one?

Alright, let’s start here: I don’t have kids but God willing (and maybe a job willing) later, I’d like to someday. Now move to here: for years, the narrative has actually been based on the idea that it’s selfish not to have… Continue Reading

Cue the research from Nick Epley and Ayelet Gneezy: When you over-deliver on a promise/claim, no one really cares that much

Because of observations they initially made about Amazon, two researchers — Ayelet Gneezy at UC-San Diego and Nicholas Epley at University of Chicago — launched a study about reaction to promises and claims by others. It turns out no one really… Continue Reading

Here’s video from the first-ever Indianapolis 500 (1911), which Ray Harroun won driving a “Marmon Wasp”

Here are the basic details. (Here’s a bit more.) Harroun won in 6 hours and 42 minutes. Tony Kanaan won the 2013 Indy 500 in 2 hours and 40 minutes. The Marmon auto brand still does survive, albeit not at the… Continue Reading

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Air travel can be hellacious. But whom do you blame more: the airlines or the other passengers?

Air travel is pretty much the safest and most time-relevant method of long-distance travel ever invented, so let’s not knock it completely — even though it isn’t doing any wonders for the environment and some processes therein, like boarding, are completely… Continue Reading

Krumbach, Austria is figuring out the future of the bus stop (well, not really)

We all need to be riding buses more, and as such, we need cooler places to wait. But broadly, the bus stop hasn’t changed a lot in about five decades. Krumbach, Austria — which has a population of about 1,000… Continue Reading