11 2026 February
Friction and the Power of Tokyo’s Popular New Cassette Cafe
After ordering your coffee at a Shibuya district cafe in the middle of Tokyo, you can browse a collection of cassette tapes to pick the...
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 Now22 2025 October
The Next Generation of Gig Work Will Be Microtasking
This week Uber announced that they will have a new offering where gig works can choose to take on “microtasks” such as training AI models...
Read Now17 2025 October
AI Matchmaking and How Expertise Is About to Be Scaled
There is an elite $2000-per-month matchmaking service called Three Day Rule that made news this week for their choice to create an AI matchmaking app...
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 Now10 2025 October
What I Learned About Events from IMEX America
I’ve spent the early part of this week at the IMEX America Trade Show here in Vegas, which is the largest trade show for the...
Read Now03 2025 October
SXSW 2026 Announcement!
SXSW is reinventing itself in 2026! The latest session announcement just came out and I’m excited to share that I’ll be back as a Featured...
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 Now15 2025 September
Anonymity Is Dead. Are We All Really Content Now?
A CEO caught on a kiss cam having an affair isn’t just the latest social media story gone unexpectedly viral. It’s also an indication of...
Read Now05 2025 September
The Curious Modern Popularity of Pumpkin Spice
It’s September and pumpkin spice everything is there. Coffee, candles, cereals, Oreos, dog treats, gum, hummus and even butt wipes (entertainingly rebranded as “Dumpkin Spice”)....
Read Now02 2025 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
If you thought, like I did, that many of the negative impacts that Facebook has had on our culture from failing to curb the spread...
Read Now29 2025 August
How “Dumbification” May Be the Next Hot Technology Trend
What happens when all the good TVs that you can buy in the market are automatically programed as “smart” TVs, ready to connect to the...
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...
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