Can we all please stop talking about how much we’re multitasking? The concept is basically a myth.
It doesn’t really exist. Continue Reading
U.S. Issues
Did y’all know Transformers 4 is about to become China’s highest-grossing movie ever? (And at a time when the U.S. box office is terrible.)
I haven’t seen any of the Transformers movies since maybe the first one — and I’m unclear honestly if I even saw that one — but regardless, the reviews for the fourth one have been kind of terrible. It’s got an 18 percent on… Continue Reading
The Monday after July 4th is conclusively the worst work day of the whole year
Admittedly, life would be better if every weekend was a three-day weekend, which is seemingly possible (and more possible in the summer). But when you think about the entire work year, can you conceive of a day worse than the Monday… Continue Reading
A wedding in America currently costs, on average, about $29,548
Via Quartz, which is in turn via a 2013 survey done by the good folks over at The Knot, we now have an idea that the average cost of an American wedding is about $29,548. In the 1930s, a wedding cost $392. Before you… Continue Reading
You probably spend two years of your life waiting in line. Could technology disrupt that?
Waiting on lines is terrible, but a seemingly unavoidable fact of life, right? Think about this, though: 20 years ago, the Internet was nascent, and finding an effective way to search was hard, but an unavoidable fact of life. (Cue… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: does the United States even ‘deserve’ to win the World Cup?
This is all pretty much a moot point, since assuming the United States will beat Belgium and Argentina in its next two games is a wide stretch. But … think about it. Anything is possible. There’s a lot of consternation around legitimate… Continue Reading
Maybe it is time to split Human Resources into two or three distinct areas
I had a lot of focus on organizational development and base HR practices in graduate school, and as such, I write about it a lot. For a long time now, I’ve been thinking that HR is handled wrong in most mid-size… Continue Reading
In New Orleans, the city is growing about four times faster than the ‘burbs
Sprawl’s a big issue — one with ties to politics — so when new research comes out around it, it’s always interesting. Here’s some new stuff about areas where cities are growing faster than suburbs; overall, in 19 of the… Continue Reading