28 2024 February
How Bad News Might Be Making Us Worse Humans
We might all be getting addicted to bad news. I was thinking about this point as I considered my own reactions to two other disturbing stories...
Read Now20 2024 February
Instead of Binge Watching, Why Not Try “Stinge Watching”?
Last month my wife and I binge watched For All Mankind on Apple+. The show was highly original, smartly written and now that we’re done...
Read Now19 2024 February
The Future of Love in an Age of AI Dating and Chatbot Partners
This past Wednesday was Valentine’s Day, and there were dozens of stories about love in one form or another. Collectively, these stories illustrated how there...
Read Now06 2024 February
Is Poisoning AI The Best Way for Artists to Fight Back?
In less than a week since the AI poisoning tool known as Nightshade was made available online for free, more than 250,000 people have downloaded and...
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 Now30 2024 January
Why Music Journalism Is Collapsing and How to Find New Music
“Before streaming, everybody in the value chain needed new music. The record stores would go broke if people just listened to the old songs over...
Read Now12 2024 January
Will 2024 Be the Year Cities Finally Ditch Parking Minimums?
What if the one of the biggest reasons for poverty and homelessness in cities wasn’t a lack of money or ballooning health care costs, but...
Read Now26 2023 December
The Most Positive and Uplifting News From 2023 … in an Infographic
Just in time for the end of the year, the team at Information is Beautiful has put together an infographic with all the “positive trends...
Read Now16 2023 December
How Obesity Drugs Are Creating a “Seismic” Shift in the Travel Industry
As more people are taking GLP-1 drugs to lose dramatic amounts of weight, the implications for travel are definitely more than what you’re imagining … or what...
Read Now02 2023 December
How Citizen Surveillance Might Be Killing San Francisco
There was a time when I would travel to San Francisco every week for a client meeting. During that moment of my career, I felt...
Read Now07 2023 November
Doritos Creates AI That Silences the Sounds of Crunching While Gaming
Listening to someone crunchily eating Doritos is probably high on many lists of annoying behavior but imagine how much worse it must be to listen...
Read Now31 2023 October
The Blue Pumpkin Debate
If you see a child carrying a blue pumpkin this Halloween, consider that they may have autism and be nonverbal or have difficulty communicating or may not be dressed up like other kids. If you have school age kids, teach them what the blue pumpkin means and how to respect any peers they see carrying one. And if you have a child come to your door this Halloween holding one, you'll know what it means so you can interact with empathy.
Read Now28 2023 October
Self-Checkout Is a Failed Experiment
Self-checkout is not a delightful experience. Goods don’t always scan properly. The system stalls if you don’t put a scanned item in the right place. Double scanning...
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