on the blockchain

500 headlines about Bitcoin

Fun to skim through, but not much substance. “Bitcoin has a branding problem. It’s known as a wildly unstable financial asset, doomed fad, brogrammer fantasy, and blah blah blah. So I subjected it to a favorite branding exercise. In the […]

under the microscope

Researchers at CERN break the speed of light

This isn’t supposed to be possible, per Einstein. Then again, neither is quantum entanglement. “Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, said that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso […]

retail therapy

Let the holiday resales begin

From Deloitte: “With the resale market growing 21x faster than the retail apparel market in the past three years, we wondered if holiday shoppers would be willing to gift a used item. We found that just over a quarter (27 […]

to your health

When is fraudulent billing not fraud?

When it happens in healthcare! “Much of what we accept as legal in medical billing would be regarded as fraud in any other sector.” I’m reminded of Shakespeare and roses smelling as sweet by any other name. “So what is […]

better doing

Why correlation usually ≠ causation

Do you ever read something that points out an obvious intuitive mistake you make repeatedly? Well, here we are… Causal Nets are an interesting explanation of why we see so much correlation in this world. | learn more

tech, startups, internet

The hundred year titan

Why are there no direct-to-consumer blockbuster films yet? “Long before the modern DTC era, movie studios did control the product from production to the theater house. This changed in 1948.” The Supreme Court decision that led studios to divest their […]