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04 2019 February

4 Big Trends From The 2019 Super Bowl Ads That Explain Our Culture

The best part of the Super Bowl experience is always the advertising. That was particularly true this year thanks to another joyless victory by the...

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31 2019 January

How Millennials Became Workaholics, Japan’s Big Hacking Experiment and Why People Believe Tabloids | Non-Obvious Insights 01.31.19

Millennials Glorify #Hustle,Take Unhealthy Workaholism Mainstream As we live through the rise of “#hustle culture,” this article provides a much needed reminder that we need to stop...

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28 2019 January

Why We Should Stop Trusting Viral Videos

Last week one of the inescapable stories in the United States was a controversial video showing a group of Catholic students appearing to clash with...

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24 2019 January

Selfie Dysmorphia, Celebrities Abandoning Social Media and the World’s Biggest Universal Income Experiment | Non-Obvious Insights 01.24.19

Why Every Ski Map Looks The Same This past weekend was a big one for skiing and so this article was interesting and timely –...

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21 2019 January

The Dangerous Side Effects Of Marie Kondo’s Tidying Movement

Japanese organizational guru Marie Kondo recently launched a show on Netflix and has inspired millions of people to get rid of the clutter in their...

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17 2019 January

Robot Layoffs, Disappearing Street Food & Asymmetrical Jeans | Non-Obvious Insights 01.17.19

Japanese Hotel Has First Round Of Robot Layoffs I first wrote about the Henna hotel, staffed entirely by robots, more than two years ago. It...

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14 2019 January

What Mastercard’s New Logo Tells Us About The Future Of Branding

If you think about it, there are a lot of brands that define what they do or how they sell based on their names. This...

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10 2019 January

Emotion Sensing App, P&G Challenges Agency Model, and Remembering Herb Kelleher | Non-Obvious Insights 01.10.19

Huawei’s New App Uses Sound To Let The Blind “See” Emotions Imagine an app that uses AI to read facial expressions and then translates the seven...

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07 2019 January

Why The Myth Of The “Sold Out Show” Is Finally Dying

There was a time when people used to think the waiting list for season tickets to Redskins games took decades to clear. Then the team finally...

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03 2019 January

Japanese Immigration, Tesla Time Lapse and the Best New Year’s Resolution | Non-Obvious Insights 01.03.19

Japan Turns To Immigration To Solve National Demographic Crisis Can Japan find an antidote for their aging population crisis through immigration? The country is notorious for...

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31 2018 December

The Ultimate Recap of the Best Stories of 2018

You know that moment in most long running TV shows when they do that recap show filled with all the greatest scenes from past episodes?...

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13 2018 December

The 2018 Non-Obvious Book Awards – Top 50 Business Books Of The Year

Every year my team and I read and review hundreds of books in the process of curating ideas to incorporate in our annual list of...

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07 2018 December

5 Non-Obvious Trends Changing Business In 2019

For the past six months I have been curating stories and insights for the upcoming 2019 edition of Non-Obvious, and it will be out in...

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