14 2022 July
A Sadly Common Case Study In Leadership Failure
Last year Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa banned the usage of agrochemicals by local farmers in an attempt to become the first country with 100%...
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When Success Is Measured In Hate, We All Lose
One thing that right and left wing media personalities have in common: they are both desperate to be hated. Attracting the hate of their ideological opposites...
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30 2022 June
Magazines Create Empathy That Can Change the World. Here’s How To Save Them.
Unlike a lot of online content, the stories and images in magazines are usually professionally produced by real talented editors and creators. The long take they regularly offer is unique and their ability to select and publish stories that are timely without feeling outdated is a constant inspiration for me to try and do the same.
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03 2021 November
What We Didn’t See In Virginia (And Why It Matters)
I live in Virginia. And I voted for the guy who lost. This morning, I received a short email from Terry McAuliffe. On the surface, it...
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26 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...
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26 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 June
Prosperity Preachers, HBO’s “Feel Terrible” Hit And Why Your Vacation May Worsen Climate Change
Why HBO’s Chernobyl Is The Feel-Terrible Hit Everyone NeededLike over six million viewers I have been completely engrossed in the storytelling of this startlingly accurate hit mini-series about the...
Read Now28 2019 February
Digital Undertakers, On-Demand Grandkids And Other Jobs Of The Future
One of the most consistent signs of our shifting future is how quickly new jobs and industries are emerging. Even as some fear technology making...
Read Now04 2019 February
4 Big Trends From The 2019 Super Bowl Ads That Explain Our Culture
The best part of the Super Bowl experience is always the advertising. That was particularly true this year thanks to another joyless victory by the...
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 Now08 2018 October
Most Online Content Is Crap. How Will We Decide What To Save?
This week the Library of Congress mapped out an ambitious vision to expand its collection of digital content and broaden access to all of it. On the...
Read Now05 2018 September
Why The Brazilian National Museum Fire Matters
The story of the devastating fire this week at the National Museum of Brazil made me unexplainably sad. Yet on three different trips to Brazil,...
Read Now28 2018 August
The Loneliness Industry and the World’s Saddest Product
About a year and a half ago, a Japanese company called Gatebox released a depressing preview video of a new AI powered “Holographic Wife” that would offer...
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