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02 2026 April
Lessons From Utopias, the World’s Most Expensive Beer
It’s a cross between a fine liquor and a reimagined beer. It’s also $240 per bottle and banned in 15 states due to having an...
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People Are Taking Pride in Using Old Devices
You might call it the longevity flex. As more cell phone services offer constant phone upgrades as soon as you hit the one year anniversary for...
Read Now10 2026 March
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Superbloom by Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr is a well-known thinker and Pulitzer Prize winner who writes about how the Internet has affected our brains. In his latest book published...
Read Now09 2026 March
The Wildly Effective #QuitGPT Movement May be the Easiest Boycott in Human History
The #QuitGPT consumer boycott movement is accelerating. More than 2.5 million people have chosen to delete ChatGPT and switch to another AI model such as Anthropic’s Claude....
Read Now05 2026 March
How Anthropic Is Winning the AI Platform Marketing War by Being Less Evil
Anthropic is winning the AI platform marketing war. In the quest to become the dominant category-defining player, OpenAI had the largest lead with ChatGPT. Then...
Read Now04 2026 March
The Professor Saving History and Truth with Guerilla Teaching Methods
When the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery changed the image of the current President in January, it also removed the original placard which mentioned Donald Trump’s...
Read Now03 2026 March
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Another World Is Possible by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
What if you could study the best programs and ideas from around the world and offer an argument for how to replicate them elsewhere? That’s...
Read Now02 2026 March
Is Las Vegas Really Experiencing a Death Spiral?
They say it’s just for rich people. Visitation is down 7.5% thanks largely to tariffs and reduced travel from international visitors (particularly Trump-despising Canadians). By...
Read Now26 2026 February
What Countries Are Proudest of Their Culture and Lifestyle?
As I spent far too much time watching the Olympics this past week, over and over from the winner’s podium you would see patriotism on...
Read Now25 2026 February
The Biggest Business in America Is Growing by Betting on Your Stupidity
Gambling is officially mainstream in America, as evidenced not only by how many ads there were for gambling platforms during the Super Bowl but just...
Read Now23 2026 February
Why Boycotting the State of the Union Address Is a Bad Idea
Every year in America the State of the Union is a speech given by the President to offer a summary of how the year has...
Read Now19 2026 February
What If You Could Sue Someone for a Lack of Ethics?
Mark Zuckerberg is now standing trial for Meta’s role in making social media addictive and actively choosing to harm teenagers, or at the very least ignoring the...
Read Now18 2026 February
These Professors Just Proved the Power of Having a Visual Metaphor for Your Strategy
Strategy comes to life when you can make it visual. That’s probably not news for most of you, but an article from HBR this week dug a...
Read Now17 2026 February
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis
There is a difference between celebrating someone as a genius and giving them credit for their genius moments. That’s the premise of this book from...
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