“Of all business closures on Yelp since March 1, 41% are permanent closures. Our data shows the largest spikes of permanent closures occurred in March, followed by May and June, indicating that the businesses that were already struggling had to […]
My first instinct was to laugh, but I don’t think that’s fair. “If the mind can cause skin issues, can it heal them, too?” | learn more
Guess first, then click. You’re probably wrong and the reason why is instructive. | learn more
“Success in most things boils down to a simple, but easily ignored distinction: do the real thing and stop doing fake alternatives instead.” | learn more
Quartz launched as a new media startup in 2012. The Quartz daily email newsletter was the first newsletter I subscribed to. If you’ve ever seen it, you can also tell how I’ve been inspired by its formatting. This is an […]
“GiPHY was bought by Facebook. I was surprised since I participated in their early investing experiment, through Alphaworks, but never got any emails about this. In July of 2014, I invested the minimum, $2,500 in GiPHY.” | learn more
“TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network.” | learn more
Five years ago, a wealthy Lakeview resident added creative landscaping to make a semi-private yard out of public park land. The park district tried without success to get the hedges removed. Block Club published the story Tuesday. People came to picnic there Wednesday. The […]
“And just as there’s a critical period for learning a language, so too is there a critical period for learning your musical tastes: It starts at 14 and peaks at 24.” | learn more
CNBC reports, “Americans earning less than $30,000 admit to spending about 13% of their income on lottery tickets”, and the average American buys $1,000 of lotto tickets. Meanwhile, about 1 in 3 people in the UK hold Premium Bonds where the interest on […]