17 2024 September
This Yogurt Brand Will Pay You $1000 To Stay Off Social Media Until After the Election Is Over
How will you avoid the toxic conversations that often come along with an election cycle? It might start with avoiding social media altogether. Yogurt brand Stonyfield...
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16 2024 September
This London-based Pharmacy Prescribes Poetry as Treatment
For those of us who love poetry, it really can lift your mood or shift your perspective in a way other written words can’t. Now...
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13 2024 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: STFU – The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in An Endlessly Noisy World, by Dan Lyons
Fresh from hours of pundit cross examining and dissecting the first (and probably only) Presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, it’s hard to...
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12 2024 September
How To Get Hated by AI … and How to Get Someone to Fix It
Reporter Kevin Roose is dealing with a unique problem … AI chatbots hate him. It’s all thanks to an article he wrote back in February...
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11 2024 September
The New Kids Book That Can Only Be Read While Outside Thanks to Sun-Activated Ink
How can you encourage kids to get outside and off their devices? With a book that can only be read outside! Brazilian food brand Fruitella...
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10 2024 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week:Per My Last Email: Witty, Wicked and Wonderfully Weird Workplace Words and Phrases by Stephanie K. Wright
If you’ve ever felt surrounded by wallydrags (feeble or worthless people) or been forced to work for a numpty (a flat-out fool), this book has the antidote. Writer Stephanie...
Read Now09 2024 September
3 Insights About the Future of Alcohol
Kantor has a new research summary out about their latest insights into the future of alcohol and there are some surprising takeaways. The report starts with the...
Read Now06 2024 September
Save the World. Eat More Lionfish and Green Crabs.
Lobster is considered a luxury food today, with high prices to prove it, but it wasn’t always this way. Lobster was once cheap and plentiful, and...
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Why I Paid Human Musicians + Artists to Create the Sonic Identity for My Podcast
Earlier this week I posted on LinkedIn about a project that my team and I have been working on for nearly a year. During the pandemic, I...
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Why Branded Reselling Platforms That Allow Customers to Sell Old Products to Each Other May Be Better Than Ebay
Sustainability-first brands like Patagonia have taken their commitment to reuse to the furthest extreme by creating an entire ecommerce experience dedicated to allowing their customers...
Read Now03 2024 September
The One Time When Everyone Lies on Social Media: After Getting Laid Off
Getting laid off is hard. Though I’ve now been an entrepreneur for nearly ten years, I do remember those moments (yes, plural!) in my life...
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UPDATE: Behind the Scenes of Influencers at the DNC Convention
Last week, many of you wrote to me about a story I shared about the treatment of the media at the Democratic National Convention and how they...
Read Now30 2024 August
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew
“Rethinking who needs improvement” is the provocative subtitle of this book which offers a different perspective on disability that might just shift your perspective about...
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