14 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...
Read Now24 2024 April
Why Amazon Is Filled with Garbage Ebooks and How They Could Fix It
An article from Vox this week explored why exactly Amazon is filled with so many garbage ebooks, and the answer is infuriatingly straightforward. AI makes it...
Read Now04 2024 March
Getting Ready For The Dynamic Pricing Future Of All Things
This week Wendy’s unintentionally stirred up some trouble as headlines popped up online that the fast-food chain was testing “surge pricing” similar to Uber where...
Read Now31 2024 January
How To Put Numbers in Context During an Election Year
I have bad news for all of us. The non-stop media coverage of politics has already started and it’s an election year here in the...
Read Now19 2023 December
Behind Netflix’s First-Ever Big Data Release and What We Watched In 2023
The Night Agent was the most popular show globally on Netflix over the past year and 30% of all viewing was non-English programming. 55% of...
Read Now07 2023 November
Do People Vote for Candidates Who Look Like Them?
There have been several studies in the past that found people tend to prefer going to doctors who share their same ethnic background. This doesn’t seem...
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