10 2026 June
The World Is Losing Its Color
This is the definition of a macrotrend – our modern world has steadily been losing color over the past several decades. As culture writer Spencer Hardwick...
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The Science Is In. AI Is Definitely Making You Dumber, If You Let It
This is a story that will surprise no one who reads my newsletter regularly, but what was surprising to me over the past few weeks...
Read Now29 2026 April
What If the Biggest Threat to Human Thinking Isn’t AI?
Most conversations about the future threat to human reasoning start and end with artificial intelligence. That misses a big threat that’s finally getting more attention:...
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 Now26 2026 January
Gen Z Doesn’t Want to Be the Boss. They May Have a Point.
Disruption is the name of the game in the workplace today which means the future is very uncertain. As a result of this uncertainty, new...
Read Now31 2025 October
All Online Outrage Is Fake
Remember the “outrage” generated online by the revised logo for Cracker Barrel restaurant? According to a new piece this week from the WSJ, much of...
Read Now29 2025 October
The Villains on Pre-K TV Are Cuddly, Annoying and Onto Something Interesting
How does the evolution of the way we learn to see “bad guys” evolve as we grow older? That was the interesting question at the...
Read Now28 2025 October
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Toxic Positivity by Whitney Goodman
If you’re an optimistic person, it’s possible that you’re part of the problem. We often feel like being positive and having the right mindset is...
Read Now20 2025 October
This Homework Motivation Pen Could Transform How We Learn
Every time I work out, my health app gives me a “Strive Score” that tells me how hard I worked and how much I pushed...
Read Now14 2025 August
The “Anna Karenina Principle” That Explains How Optimists Differ from Pessimists
The first line of Leo Tolstoy’s famous novel Anna Karenina offers this observation: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its...
Read Now30 2025 July
The Future Will Include AI For Dynamic Pricing … Here’s What Could Happen Next
Here are two stories from this week that don’t seem to be related to one another. The first is about Delta testing AI for dynamic...
Read Now28 2025 July
How AI Is Exposing the Idiocy of Influencer Marketing
Recently, an AI generated influencer went viral at Wimbledon. She wasn’t the first, but there was a firestorm of stories about how she is the...
Read Now24 2025 July
The Coming GLP-1 Buying Shift That’s Causing Brands to Panic
The big story of GLP-1 medications has routinely been about weight loss, obesity and expanded usages beyond its original classification as a way to manage...
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