“Amazon has become a lucrative place to do business for many Hasidic Jews, offering anonymity to a largely insular community and allowing women to work from home.” | learn more
“When it comes to creating a great D2C brand, there are so many little moving parts to consider. So we thought it would be worth checking in with marketers who have remarkable D2C experience for their advice on the subject. […]
“You know those people you just love being around? They’re outgoing, positive, and always seems to make everyone around them better? Researchers call them “connectors,” and a new study suggests they can help improve the work experience and ultimately reduce […]
“Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table, you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.” | learn more
I think we’re all a bit guilty here, right? “A nonprofit group called the Basel Action Network investigates the world of the underground e-waste trade. But a plan to track the spread of waste led them to Total Reclaim, a […]
This is another letter on strategy from Joel Spolsky written in 2000. Great stuff – especially the Excel examples (he was an Excel product manager). “When you’re trying to get people to switch from a competitor to your product, you need to […]
Why would they want records of missing work? “Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson’s effort to require City Council committees to determine whether a majority of aldermen are present before starting meetings ran into a buzzsaw of opposition.” | learn more
A study by the Brookings Institution claimed that the Chicago area lost 12,582 “innovation jobs” between 2005 and 2017. I’m curious to learn what tech/innovation jobs we had to lose back in 2005, but that data isn’t in here. Full report […]
This goes deep into specific projects, but not so deep into technology that it’s impossible to understand. “So much is happening at the many layers of Bitcoin’s technology stack, it can be incredibly difficult to keep track of emerging solutions. […]
I stumbled across this while learning about how to deliver microbes beyond the treacherous environment of the stomach. “The new ‘bacteria in a pill’ approach does things differently. Instead of pumping out a drug and purifying it in the lab, […]