05 2025 November
Bill Gates Now Says We Are Fighting Climate Change Wrong …
Something unusual was amiss in the media this week: climate activists were hating on Bill Gates. It all started with Gates publishing a blog post...
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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 Now16 2025 October
The Room Where You Can Hear Your Own Nervous System
Imagine a room so quiet you can actually feel your own heart beating. It exists already and it’s known as an anechoic chamber. Over the...
Read Now06 2025 October
The Cormackian Challenge and What AI Could Really Do
There were two major stories this week that seem on the surface to have little to do with one another. The first is one you...
Read Now25 2025 September
The New Science of the Trend Towards Grey Divorces
Couples that get divorced later in life when their children are already adults was once a rarely studied field—particularly the effects on those adult children...
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 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...
Read Now16 2025 June
How To See Through a Manipulated Headline (A Retailwire Case Study)
One thing I often talk about in this newsletter is honing our media literacy. This week I found a perfect case study to illustrate how...
Read Now11 2025 June
Why Boys Are Falling Behind In School (And How To Fix It)
American schools and kindergarten specifically are not designed for boys … But they should be. That’s the conclusion from a piece in the New York...
Read Now06 2025 May
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann
Imagine a future where an algorithm reads everything from your facial expressions during an interview to everything you have ever shared on social media in...
Read Now02 2024 October
Can Tech in Cars Make Us More Considerate or Better Drivers?
As part of our Olympics trip this summer, we made a side visit to Lyon and drove across the border to Switzerland. Driving in Europe,...
Read Now06 2024 June
Why People Become Gamers … And How It’s Changing
Fandom recently released the latest edition of their annual Inside Gaming Report where they survey 5,000 “entertainment and gaming fans globally.” The data this year found that...
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