07 2023 August
How The Nintendo NES Game Console Changed the World
Yes, I am part of the generation that grew up with the original Nintendo gaming system … and sometimes I even feature it in my...
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26 2023 July
When Influencer Marketing Goes Predictably Wrong
When a fast fashion retailer often criticized for negative environmental and labor track record wants to recast its brand image, it is not a good...
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16 2022 September
New Global Study Reveals the Emojis That Make You More (Or Less) Attractive
Forget the best and worst pickup lines, now thanks to Adobe all single people have some data on the emojis to use (and which ones to avoid) when trying to appear more attractive.
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13 2022 September
Monopoly Makes Kids Angry, For Their Own Good
I really wish I was in the room when they presented the insight behind this campaign to Hasbro. It's bold, clever and deep in a way you don't expect marketing to be.
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16 2022 June
How To Archive Yourself In the Digital Age
This article helped me consider the value of discarding that archive so I can move beyond the past version of myself that it commemorates. No doubt it is easier to become a better person when your past self isn't just a resurfaced tweet away.
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05 2022 June
My Non-Obvious Graduation Advice For Recent Grads
I’m just a few days away from my oldest son graduating from high school, and so I’ve been thinking a lot about graduation advice. A...
Read Now28 2020 July
Millennials Move Into Childhood Bedrooms and Revisit Their Youth
Many young city dwellers left their apartments to move back home with parents when Covid-19 shut down everything. For most, that meant moving back into...
Read Now26 2020 July
World Population Will Decline Starting In 2064, Shifting the Current World Order
After peaking at 9.7 billion people in the year 2064, researchers believe that the world’s population will begin to decline. The primary reason cited is more...
Read Now26 2019 December
5 Non-Obvious Megatrends Changing Our World In 2020
For the past ten years I have gone through an annual ritual of publishing a book about trends that describe our shifting culture and business...
Read Now06 2019 July
Is Social Media Making It Impossible To Grow Up?
It should be a basic human right to remember the past with fondness as being better than it actually was. Unfortunately, for today’s generation of...
Read Now11 2019 February
Who’s Killing Sneaker Culture … And Why Does It Matter?
“You can have commerce or you can have culture,” Sean Williams says. He’s talking about sneakers but he might as well be talking about anything,...
Read Now31 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...
Read Now19 2018 September
Is the Body Positive Movement Really A Good Thing?
Today there are plenty of examples of campaigns to help people become comfortable with their own bodies. Yet some have criticized this body positive movement as perhaps...
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