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 shutdown protests: 1) as a humanist and a marketer, there’s a lot of cognitive dissonance around watching the protesters root …
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Is Burnout a Millennial-Only Trait? These are the robots of our discontent…
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 …
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Flash Fiction: A Love Story – Part 1
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.
Blame It On World Peas
31% of the total US methane emissions come from energy production, 16% comes from landfills. 20% of THAT 16% is food waste.
Toys ‘R’ Us: A Simple Explanation
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 …
Disenfranchised
If CBS needed help funding Star Trek, they need only have looked toward Trek's true fans already doing it on a shoestring.
Pretty Sure It’s OK To Hug A Vulcan Today
Live Long And Prosper.
Nu Trek turned our Trek Heroes into Teens with Problems
I've resisted writing about Star Trek (2009). Here's why - to paraphrase Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory: "It's a [Star Trek movie]. Like pizza or particle accelerators even the stinky ones, still pretty good." Trek is Trek, I say to my semi-Trekkie friends. They roll their eyes. It's a hard thing, rebooting a franchise. …
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The Negotiation Styles of Star Trek Captains
I've been a fan of Star Trek for as long as I can remember, so it's no wonder that whenever I have to make tough decisions - big or small, business or personal - I think about how my favorite Star Trek characters would react and try to incorporate their strengths into mine. Kirk has …
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