17 2026 June
The 14-Day Bikini and How Fast Fashion Really Works
Among the many misperceptions about Chinese manufacturing, one of the biggest may be that everything made in China is being created in megafactories with enormous...
Read Now10 2026 June
The World Is Losing Its Color
This is the definition of a macrotrend – our modern world has steadily been losing color over the past several decades. As culture writer Spencer Hardwick...
Read Now26 2026 March
Words That Don’t Exist (Yet) – A Big New Book Announcement!
If you happen to catch some of the news coming out of SXSW last week, you’ll already know that I made a big announcement from...
Read Now04 2026 March
The Professor Saving History and Truth with Guerilla Teaching Methods
When the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery changed the image of the current President in January, it also removed the original placard which mentioned Donald Trump’s...
Read Now02 2026 March
Is Las Vegas Really Experiencing a Death Spiral?
They say it’s just for rich people. Visitation is down 7.5% thanks largely to tariffs and reduced travel from international visitors (particularly Trump-despising Canadians). By...
Read Now26 2026 February
What Countries Are Proudest of Their Culture and Lifestyle?
As I spent far too much time watching the Olympics this past week, over and over from the winner’s podium you would see patriotism on...
Read Now25 2026 February
The Biggest Business in America Is Growing by Betting on Your Stupidity
Gambling is officially mainstream in America, as evidenced not only by how many ads there were for gambling platforms during the Super Bowl but just...
Read Now19 2026 February
What If You Could Sue Someone for a Lack of Ethics?
Mark Zuckerberg is now standing trial for Meta’s role in making social media addictive and actively choosing to harm teenagers, or at the very least ignoring the...
Read Now11 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...
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