better doing

How to tell if someone is bluffing

“How do we know whether our counterpart is serious or just taking a position to try to outmaneuver us? And how do we protect the relationship while we find out? The answer is simple—use this negotiation technique.” | learn more

retail therapy

Amazon soon moving to one-day Prime delivery

The news here is a big deal, but shouldn’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention to Amazon’s relentless pressure. My favorite part might be this Yahoo Finance headline: “Amazon ‘Sneezes’ One-Day Delivery, And A Chill Envelops Retail, Logistics Landscape” […]

to your health

Authorities questions uBiome’s billing practices

This company is a leader in the movement to help consumers (patients?) understand something (probably very little, but something) about the makeup of their microbiome. Insurers maybe don’t like paying for it, though. “Special agents from the Federal Bureau of […]

on the blockchain

Blockchain-based concert tickets

Might this be a truly useful use case? “Tracer has launched a new blockchain-based ‘smart ticket’ that helps prevent ticket scalpers from profiting from ticket resales.” | learn more

on the blockchain

Tether is back under fire

This time, from the NY Attorney General. “The suit has also revealed that Bitfinex purportedly sent $850 million to a Panama-based company, lost access to the funds as a result of a government seizure, and had to dip into Tether’s […]

book recommendations

Power Moves: Lessons from Davos

This is an audio-only production full of interviews of powerful people who attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The topic is power, and how it’s changing nowadays due to the networked age we live in. Some of the […]