This isn’t the worst idea I’ve ever heard: Once upon a time, newspaper publishers had a great business model: Selling ads that were printed on paper, then selling bundles of those papers to consumers. Obviously, things have changed — most news is a free commodity and, according to former Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile, some 236…
I was watching this video of a Google Talk by Max Stossel recently. It’s a bit long by internet standards, and his poetic style might take a minute to get used to, but it’s well worth thinking about. Even if you only watch the first ten minutes, do it. (But really, set some time aside…
Caught up with the most recent Freakonomics podcast episode yesterday and found the whole thing fascinating. The episode starts out with a pretty basic question that many of us who have a deep interest in internet technology and culture have been talking about for awhile now. It’s a remarkable ecosystem that allows each of us…
If you watched the NFL Draft on Thursday night, you may have caught Gatorade’s commercial tribute to Peyton Manning. If you didn’t, you can see it here: As I watched it, the one thing that jumped out at me was that all of these people who had handwritten notes from Peyton that they had…
I’ve written before about Manager Tools. Specifically I’ve written before about how you are the company to the people who report to you, and all that entails. Over the last couple of weeks on the Manager Tools podcast they’ve released parts 1 and 2 of Welcome To They – Professional Subordination In their own words:…
In the wake of Robin Williams death earlier this week, I’ve been thinking a lot about how different people reacted, what they said on social media and this Freakonomics podcast about suicide. The question I keep coming back to is this. If there is a demonstrable increase in the number of suicides after one well-publicized…