retail therapy
Why are sales down?
“Several fashion retailers and e-commerce platforms are playing the blame game when it comes to Temu and Shein.” ~ learn more
better doing
Picking a purpose.
Technologist David Heinemeier Hansson (known as DHH) is now a bit of a philosophy student as well. “Eric Fromm followed the same path of wisdom to additional insights. In The Pathology of Normalcy, he spells out exactly what makes modern […]
better doing
Unleashing your secret identity.
Todd Herman helped Kobe Bryant craft his alter ego, the Black Mamba. He is a performance coach who uses the tool of identity, “because your identity—the person or the view of yourself that’s going out to perform on that field—is […]
tech, startups, internet
Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India.
“Early this year, in an effort to improve production and ready the plant to manufacture Apple’s upcoming flagship iPhone 15, Foxconn dispatched more Chinese workers to Sunguvarchatram. Engineers like Li would get the India plant up to China speed.” ~ learn more
tech, startups, internet
Cell-based therapies are medicine’s endgame.
This is an approachable explanation of a current frontier in medicine and what could become of it’s rise. “A little over a decade ago… For the first time, patients were cured of disease using genetically engineered cells as a medicine […]
tech, startups, internet
Lessons from acquiring 586 companies.
This was a top notch discussion with Justin Ishbia of Shore Capital. They’ve deployed $7 billion of capital with an average transaction size of $12 million. It’s all down to the repeatable systems and tons of sports analogies by which […]
oh, chicago
Guilty verdict for alderman-racketeer Ed Burke.
“The conviction caps a stunning fall from grace for an old-school politician who wielded his power for decades as the head of the City Council’s Committee on Finance, which controls much of the city’s spending. … The 79-year-old Burke was […]
fun facts
The Pontiac Aztek.
If you remember this car, you probably remember how unattractive it was… “a car so ham-fisted in its execution it became a metaphor for the clownshow that was pre-bankruptcy GM.” Professional car designer and writer Adrian Clarke tells the story […]
fun facts
PlayPhrase: a site for cinema archaeologists.
Type in any phrase and get a compilation video of that exact phrase across a library of movies. Do you feel lucky? ~ learn more
fun facts
Why do tattoos last?
Most cells in the body only live for about a year. Skin cells are on this schedule. “Therefore, skin cells should divide and dead cells be cleared out in under a year, not the decades that tattoos would suggest.” So […]