We're being tested in a novel way, both in the kind of test that we are facing and in the duration of it. Because of the unique nature of this challenge, the difficulties of public policymaking and everyday societal failure points that lead to inequity are becoming VERY visible. Even with very good leadership functioning …
Continue reading What kind of “normal” are we going to bring back?
Historical perspective is a neat thing. I warn clients away from being armchair epidemiologists, and society doesn’t need yet another pundit on anything. So I’ll stay in my lane with three comments about the COVID19 protests: 1) as a humanist and a marketer, there’s a lot of cognitive dissonance around watching the protesters root for …
The article How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation has certainly made the rounds lately and boy oh boy did Anne Helen Petersen strike a chord. "When it came to the mundane, the medium priority, the stuff that wouldn’t make my job easier or my work better, I avoided it. I realized that the vast majority …
Continue reading Is Burnout a Millennial-Only Trait? These are the robots of our discontent…
I don't subscribe to the whole dystopia sci-fi thing. I've watched my fair share and I just don't see the appeal - so I knew my story would be upbeat.
31% of the total US methane emissions come from energy production, 16% comes from landfills. 20% of THAT 16% is food waste.
The Toys 'R' Us closing wasn’t a result of kids wanting fewer toys or adults buying fewer toys, or even Amazon or other retailers taking a bite out of the toy market. It was because a bunch of rich old dudes decided to pump and dump the brand with debt. Here's the technical description of …
If CBS needed help funding Star Trek, they need only have looked toward Trek's true fans already doing it on a shoestring.
