15 2026 June
Can Communal Knowledge Be Automated?
In many countries across Central and West Africa, women known as “mammies” are a fixture at local markets, selling food to families in open air...
Read Now28 2026 May
Pizza Hut and the Retro Restaurant Movement
For years, the leader in delivery pizza has been Dominos. For sit down pizzerias, there are plenty of options in most cities. Pizza Hut has...
Read Now05 2026 May
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh
There is a shelf in my office stacked entirely with books about the history of the banana (and one about tulips). These sorts of books...
Read Now23 2026 April
Heinz Shows the Underappreciated Power of Manufacturing Significance
Brand positioning is usually all about what makes your product or service different. Usually that’s based on something real, but it doesn’t always have to...
Read Now22 2026 April
Skimpflation and Why Hershey Is Quietly Going Back to Using Actual Ingredients in Reese’s PB Cups
Brad Reese is the grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups inventor H.B. Reese and apparently has spent much of his adult life going out in...
Read Now20 2026 April
How One Man Lowered the Price of Guinness by Using AI to Call 6,000+ Pubs Across Ireland
Here’s a story that has everything: an entrepreneur’s frustration, an immediately useful idea, game changing use of technology … and a great brand name. It...
Read Now02 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...
Read Now06 2026 February
Amazon Was Always Going to Shut Down All Their Go & Fresh Stores
Amazon announced last Tuesday that they are closing the majority of their physical grocery and retail stores and will be laying off 16,000 people. In past...
Read Now04 2025 December
The 2025 Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide
Today we continue with my annual Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide, featuring a few products that caught my eye throughout the past year. 7. Delayed Gratification...
Read Now14 2025 October
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: A Kids Book About Diwali by Chhavi Arya Bhargava
It’s Diwali season and the holiday is getting continued attention from many groups outside the South Asian community, so I wanted to come back and...
Read Now08 2025 October
What You Can Learn About Marketing from Flavored Vodkas
I accidentally tried Smirnoff’s Spicy Tamarind Vodka. It was a gift from a friend, and I didn’t have high hopes. It was more of a...
Read Now24 2025 September
The Tuna Cans Film Festival: A Perfect Throwback Marketing Strategy?
Would you make a movie about a can of tuna? Inspired by the Cannes Film Festival, Bumble Bee launched the Tuna Cans Film Festival – a search...
Read Now10 2025 September
An Advertising Campaign That Could Actually Make You Happier
You should go out and have a beer. And just in case you need a bit of encouragement, Heineken wants you to go and have...
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