Sitemap - 2014 - What Is Even Happening?
You'll do 590 actual hours of work in 2016
58 percent of supervisor job skills come from four traits. Learn them.
Going to a random wedding is basically like watching 1/6th of a movie
Jim Harbaugh vs. Urban Meyer isn't another 10 Year War, sadly
Theresa Benn's death is now a homicide. Was it Kevin Dulaney?
Voice mail is basically dead. Is e-mail next?
Are Phoenix and Miami really going to become more walkable?
Is Charlotte Wilkerson the key in the Jessica Chambers case?
It's perfectly fine to talk about dark issues at the holidays, you know?
Happiness is bullshit. But you can be content. Here's how.
The simple lesson of Google and YouTube, Facebook and Instagram
'You don't understand' is the worst-ever way to begin a sentence
2015 Business Trend: Synthesis in, analysis out
Jennifer Lawrence's e-mail, peanutbutt, should be a lesson to marketers
How To Set Priorities: Start with clarity about what matters most
Ironically, the holidays are probably the least transparent time of the year
James Holmes' parents, Robert and Arlene, probably shouldn't be talking about the death penalty
Here's more evidence the middle class is dead/dying
Your Christmas stuff is likely from Yiwu, a small town in China
A roundup of social media on the Jessica Chambers case
Marketing Trends 2015: O-Sources vs. P-Sources
The top 10 skills for a job in 2014, per LinkedIn
Serial Podcast, Episode 12: With Adnan and Jay, we believe what we want to believe
Could there be a tie between Chelsea Bruck, Julia Niswender, and Chelsea Small?
National parks are still quite popular, via Facebook and rich people
Remember: social media isn't a real relationship
What do Google's top 10 searches of 2014 say about humanity?
The New York Times probably doesn't understand gentrification
If you think gender relationships to work are changing, uh, look at this chart
If Serial Podcast Season 2 is about crime, how about the David Thorne case?
Social engagement doesn't matter. Stop measuring it.
What's the value of being selfish or obstinate?
Stats about e-mail are often very depressing (** puts rifle up to scrotum **)
Arbejdsglæde, as a word, explains the working world
On the Global Livable Cities Index, the first U.S. city doesn't appear until No. 17
Jessica Chambers was burned alive in Mississippi. Look at Bryan Rudd and Ali Alsanai.
Jeff Goins is two-faced and reaffirmed everything is just a sale
The millennial revolution will come on the back of walkability
Marcus Mariota is going to be the biggest Heisman Trophy margin of victory ever, right?
Serial Podcast, Episode 11: Maybe the worst episode, or maybe the best
CFB: The Wisconsin job is better than the Michigan job right now. Odd.
What if Blake Bortles rebounded from Lindsey Duke to Taylor Swift?
If you truly believe in yourself, does 'leverage' at work still matter?
Three surprising, simple ways to make your organization better
YouTube 2014 belonged to Katy Perry and a mutant giant spider dog
Someone is now paying $500K/month to rent in New York City
How about a Rhonda Kitts Daugherty and Lonnie Vann connection?
Once, I passed out on a subway and rode it end-to-end a few times. Here's that story.
Use analytics to make yourself more productive
When in meetings, please define who the hell Dave is
Buy your house in the winter, especially if you like bargain-shopping
Should you combine finances with your spouse / significant other?
Serial Podcast, Episode 10: Does Cristina Gutierrez make Adnan seem more innocent?
2015 Goal: Reach out to one person in your network per day
Shit, 2014 will probably be the hottest year on record
CFB Championship Weekend: What are different scenarios for Alabama, TCU, FSU, etc?
Forget "digital natives." Talk about "mobile natives."
Mike Riley hire: Nebraska, and the media, know nothing about anything
What do you think is your biggest challenge of the next year or so?
The savings rate for Americans under 35 is negative 1.8 percent
The employee-manager relationship is inherently doomed
What could have happened to Shane Montgomery?
Does business journalism really have value?
Google+ should really be an interests network
Why aren't sales-driven websites more transparent?
Forget Maslow. Focus on autonomy, relatedness and competence.
Start quoting Tim Cook in your presentations, ya prick
A walk is so simple, yet so powerful for productivity
What exactly is Michael Keaton's Birdman about?
Scott Frost is going to be the next head coach at Nebraska
Serial Podcast: Adnan Syed didn't do it. Honestly.
How to make Thanksgiving dinner via YouTube
Paraphrasing should be a part of your Thanksgiving
Accomplish your goals with visual cues
What could have happened to Jessica Padgett? Is it linked to Mica Padgett or Holly Grim?
Jimbo Fisher is a sanctimonious piece of shit. Here's why.
Maybe Bugs Bunny is a complex metaphor for the U.S. Army, eh?
Pride and people not wanting help
Why aren't airports happier places?
Your name can keep you on top of society for 28 generations
For businesses, the value of social media is hard to prove
Stop using Facebook as a marketing strategy
As millennials move to cities and have kids, will soccer become popular in the U.S.?
David Lobell and what we're eating in 20 years
I wrote Mike Nichols a letter once. He wrote back. Kinda cool, no?
Being happy: shift away from money, towards time
Who's going to screw up the New England Patriots' season this year?
What could have happened to Elizabeth (Ricks) Sullivan?
Respect your employees. It seems like a soft skill, but it matters.
My 1,000th post: Here's what I need to get better at
How to prevent your work team from totally falling apart
The 2008 recession was great for the status quo
Half your marketing team should be top-of-the-funnel
On do-everything vs. 'best of breed'
Why do I always say "ground and pound" on Facebook?
Why is it so hard to achieve purpose at work?
What if work had mandatory "Stop And Think" periods?
By 2050, minorities will be the majority
The approach to meetings needs to change
'Out-of-office' is the most bullshit thing in history
Outlook should just cut e-mails off at five lines
Abilify explains America in a nutshell
Technology shifted the world, in two photos and one lesson
Work schism: too many leaders think at the macro level
Just fucking legalize marijuana already, OK?
Gary Peters of Michigan bucked the Koch Brothers trend in 2014
Headcount may be destroying business innovation
The Martini Report on affluent consumers will make you gauge your fucking eyes out
Start viewing work as a neighborhood
The actual problem: No one really knows how long things take at work
Looks like Enrique Arochi may be the guy in the Christina Morris case
Will the Nov. 8 CFB weekend be as crazy as the Oct. 4 CFB weekend was?
Midterm elections are mostly pointless
Young, cute, Harvard-educated, Republican? Elise Stefanik could be the future.
On employee engagement and sales
We should talk about failure more openly at work
Everyone needs to learn how to give presentations
Let's all talk about Connor Halliday for a second
In big U.S. cities, the middle class is dead
The worst f'n thing you can call yourself is a "marketing expert"
What could have happened with Chelsea Bruck?
Maybe a smile is the most powerful thing in the world
How I tried to change my personal mantra
The paradox of the brilliant jerk
A three-step process to spending time at work on the right things
The incredibly true adventures of a misguided 30-something in Belgium
Just give up and move to Youngstown, Ohio
My blog's one-year anniversary happened in Belgium. Here's how.
The future of work is becoming a 'personal gatekeeper'
Everyone should try Gwyneth Paltrow's chicken kapama
Why is honesty at work so hard?
Mississippi State vs. Alabama is now 'the game of the year'
Only 13.3% of the 30 global talent hubs are in the United States
What if each day at work had a theme?
Should we be scared of everyone living longer?
Younger Catholics seem to be OK with homosexuality
What the Kansas City Royals can teach you about your life
In terms of leadership, we should all be spitfires
Don Draper's 'That's what the money is for!' is always a good way to explain work
Third-party reviews are pretty significant for larger purchases
Your restaurant can look like crap, so long as it's "authentic"
No one cares about the Titans and Jaguars
Did Einstein explain the rationale for consultants?
This is why no one really listens to you at work
Does Dustin Blackwell have a role in the Cassie Compton disappearance?
If you want to be successful, use more analogies
There are more states under single-party control now than at any time since WW2
Self-compassion vs. self-esteem (and me in therapy)
Missing white woman syndrome may be a legitimate problem now
Business leaders need to think about their energy level
Take care of your friends when you're all drinking
Red River Rivalry is dead. Long live the Red River Rivalry.
Holy hell, J.J. Abrams wrote Regarding Henry
Here's a story about unnaturally long sex
What the hell is going on with hotel prices?
Minneapolis is the most cursed sports city
What are the best U.S. cities for public transportation?
Here's a story about a time I went to see Pixar's "Up" super drunk
A minor and a major at work? Might be a good idea.
Was Kayelyn Louder lost in a flood, or was it a crime situation?
Conventional SEO is kind of dumb, right?
95 percent of managers don't understand motivation
Jay-Z offers one of the best summaries of The War on Drugs
If I'm extroverted, then why am I also scared of people?
Michael Nicholaou or Fred Atwell could be the Colonial Parkway Killer
Better marketing: Leave out key information
What I learned, about WordPress and life, at DFW WordCamp 2014
Statistically, learning probably beats knowing right now
If you're a woman looking to get married, move west of the Mississippi
Two simple ways to be a better leader: walk around, share credit
There are six ranked vs. ranked college football games this weekend. Nice.
Scientifically, Facebook may have destroyed real friendship
Can you make friends after 30?
Alcohol does lead to social bravery, and moreso in men
What if branding worked backwards from the outcomes?
Can we ever solve the Dail Dinwiddie case?
Increase revenue with A/B testing and a two-word change
Organizational breakthroughs can come from where you least expect it
Does the average manager understand the power of intrinsic motivation?
Only 30 percent of salespeople are ready for a buyer's questions
The Tricia Haney Langston case could be similar to Kristy Kelley
Inequality in New York City is equivalent to Swaziland
Is Missouri vs. South Carolina 2014 the worst College Gameday location ever?
What if business teams just removed hierarchy?
We hate the form, so cue social login
Arnis Zalkalns might be involved in the Alice Gross case, but European arrest warrants are an issue
The inherent challenge of being a middle manager
Strategy and operations aren't the same thing
Do people actually read content before they share content?
The job market is killing the marriage market
Why don't people contextualize their e-mails more?
"... if your organization is still treating HR like a compliance function..."
What's it like to work at ESPN?
Funny: B2B inbound marketing is essentially akin to stalking
What if Human Resources made one small change to the on-boarding process?
Russell Wilson is trolling all the other elite QBs (Brees, Manning, Brady, Rodgers)
Seems like Jesse "LJ" Matthew could be the culprit in the Hannah Graham case
Income inequality is eroding human trust
What's the worst workplace buzzword?
Only about a third of people seemingly want to be managers
Only about 1 in 10 Americans can balance being busy with being happy
Mindy Kaling was apparently almost in Bridesmaids (as Lillian, i.e. Maya Rudolph)
You can thank evolution for the size and shape of your face (maybe)
Could there be a tie between Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington?
Don't hire millennials for social media jobs
Where are the best places for singles to live?
How to beat the Seattle Seahawks: control possession and use the tight end
What happened to Christina Marie Morris, and is Hunter Foster potentially involved?
Leading a process? Learn the process.
Stop spending time with people like yourself
Leslie Gilliams of MasterChef is Melissa Joan Hart's stepfather, eh?
No one really wants bipartisanship
Jodi Arias seems to be back-pedaling on the death penalty now
Angry tweets are how you can get noticed
Mexico City is apparently building a massive, squid-esque airport
Social Media: Focus on 'retention,' not 'going viral'
Cortana nailed the World Cup. Can it predict the NFL?
Future of Work: Maximizers vs. satisficers
Only about 25 percent of the world has a full-time job
Moreira Monsalve ("Mo") case seems to be tied to Bernard Brown
Where are the best cities for jobs for young people?
7.6 tons of cocaine was seized in Peru recently. That's somewhat important.
On The Fappening, Kate Upton, ethics and all that
IQ, EQ? Valid. How about CQ? (Curiosity quotient.)
Where can you get the cheapest flight from?
Save two hours a day with this e-mail hack
Why you should love college football
The AstroDome could become the new High Line
Can we solve the Elizabeth Collins / Lyric Cook abduction-murder case?
Should Human Resources optimize the talent or the organization?
Organizations like to describe women as "abrasive"
Elizabeth Cauvel vs. Courtney Lapresi is going to be the MasterChef 2014 finale, right?
Facebook eliminating clickbait headlines is a purely business move
No one really understands the unemployment rate
How old and experienced is an average CEO?
Exploring white attitudes on African-Americans in prisons
Beth-Ellen Vinson, Rick Heath, lie detectors and cold cases
55 percent of employees are eating during conference calls (and more fun stats)
Is employee engagement tied to revenue?
Kristy Kelly and Joelle Lockwood must be somewhat linked, right?
People really love to deify the internal culture of tech companies
Nordstrom: full-line store sales down 1.2%, but Nordstrom.com up 22%. A new trend?
Americans leave 430 million vacation days on the table per year
So, the Seattle Seahawks could become a dynasty, right?
Humans and Neanderthals may have overlapped in Europe for 5,400 years
Marketing to 18 to 24 year-olds is challenging
Home Depot just taught you something about the housing market
In organizations, does decentralization generate experimentation?
There are more minorities than whites in U.S. public schools
When should you make work decisions?
The Claudine Jaquier Gifford disappearance does seem tied to James "Todd" Kessler
Is Tampa representative of the American city crossroads?
What's the most important word for business teamwork?
If River Phoenix had never died, would Leonardo DiCaprio's career be the same?
The social psychology of Las Vegas is incredible, if you think about it.
The Michael Brown case is sad. It's also less a racial issue, and more about the role of police.
Here's a personal story I feel like writing about
Would you prefer a male boss or a female boss?
For higher landing page conversion rates, try a survey
ChromeBook could supplant iPads in schools because of a simple contextual functionality
What if evolution doesn't end with humans?
Between 2006 and 2012, income inequality increased in 226 U.S. metros
Jennifer Huston case: suicide, robbery attempt, or Kallen Huston involved?
No one seems to want to attend Tampa Bay Buccaneers games
Kaley Cuoco is now officially a superstar
Maybe we should segment the workday more
Could a dating website making hiring better?
When you complain about Google and privacy, please also think about John Henry Skillern
Why do we still find the Kennedy family relevant?
New Hampshire drinks more than basically anyone else
This headline might be 22% more effective than yours
Cornell is trying to buck the Ivy League mold to a Silicon Valley place
Dan Markel update: Rabbis case, hostile blogs, Wendi Adelson and a Prius still in the mix
Does having a personal brand mean you're less authentic?
Presentations: move from 'telling' to 'asking'
Can we ever solve the Tara Grinstead case?
Where are the most U.S. citizens in debt? San Jose and McAllen, Texas apparently.
Is it possible that almost everything about classic management advice is wrong?
Annapolis, Maryland has seen a 925 percent increase in 'nuisance flood days' since the 1960s
Jennifer Huston disappearance probably isn't about Kallen Houston, but what of these headaches?
It's currently end of days in Siberia and the Zhejiang province of China, apparently
Brief thought exercise: what songs MUST you play at a wedding reception?
William C. Whitney could have changed the future of the entire world via the electric car
The key to the April Millsap case is her dog, Penny
Here are some of the best lines from the Joe Biden New Yorker profile
The key to sales: Never Be Closing
Courtney Lapresi and Cutter Brewer are just awful to watch on MasterChef Season 5
Could urban physics significantly impact organizational culture?
No one has repeated as NFC South champion ever. Odd, right?
Here's two great, very simple pieces of sales advice
Vogue has 146 more ad pages for September's issue than its next highest competitor
What could have happened to Jennifer Cahill-Shadle? Is this an ex-husband case?
Let's eliminate performance reviews
29.21 percent of Monaco are millionaires. Holy hell.
The best place for a career in 2014
So did Nichole Lee and Christopher Lee kill Erin Corwin?
Here's the most depressing American jobs-related paragraph you'll read today
Leadership is really about soft skills
Will content marketing help you achieve business goals?
The Alabama-Auburn trolling has really hit a fever pitch
What do restaurants mean to cities? A lot, apparently.
Dan Markel was the 'intended victim' of his shooting. Do you look at Wendi Adelson, then?
Brief thought exercise: does it really matter how many Twitter followers you have?
Why hasn't the four-day work week caught on?
Long Distance Moving Company Review: I'd mostly recommend American National Van Lines
The key question in the Rachel Cooke disappearance: knew her attacker, or no? (Ex-boyfriend?)
Brief thought exercise: how closely do you connect your self-worth to your job?
Bitly decided to get in bed with the marketing industry big-time
This Cor Pan Facebook post from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 is terrifying
In the Dana Boshell case, it had to be the boyfriend, right?
Could acqui-hiring work outside the tech space?
Your kids may be eating sand in their pizza at school
Satya Nadella and Microsoft just hit one of the all-time corporate pivot moments
True test for soccer in the United States? Perhaps the International Champions Cup.
Should Jibo the robot (and social robotics in general) terrify you, or is it a good step?
Resumes show eligibility, but not suitability. Could a company called Saberr change that?
Some contextual thoughts on driving down the I-35 corridor
How to hire introverts in marketing
Axelle Despiegelaere of Belgium just did "the honey shot" right
It might take 371 days for your mom to friend you on Facebook
Sandra Travis, Maury Travis' mother, is possibly the worst landlord in U.S. history
Ron Johnson, retail semi-legend, just gave an open palm slap to Big Data
Here are 10 things you should know before moving to Minneapolis
76 percent of business interactions on social media are "neutral?" That's boring.
Maybe the re-rise of the Rust Belt could come on the backs of designers
Larry Page wasn't necessarily wrong on the "people shouldn't have to work full-time" thing
Can we all please stop talking about how much we're multitasking? The concept is basically a myth.
Penalty kicks are the conclusive proof that Twitter is just a big digital sports bar
The Monday after July 4th is conclusively the worst work day of the whole year
Amazon vs. Netflix is getting more and more interesting
Moving to Dallas / Fort Worth later this month
What can a chef teach a businessman?
This is why you should be rooting for The Netherlands at the World Cup
A wedding in America currently costs, on average, about $29,548
Sprouts, a grocery chain out of Phoenix, is changing the way you walk through a supermarket
You probably spend two years of your life waiting in line. Could technology disrupt that?
Experience may mean very little when choosing leadership
Only two of the world's 10 most marketable soccer players are actually still in the World Cup
The world got impatient; one second of slower load time can cost Amazon $1.6 billion across a year
Brief thought exercise: does the United States even 'deserve' to win the World Cup?
Maybe it is time to split Human Resources into two or three distinct areas
Even as organic reach declines, Facebook's best day for engagement is Fridays
In New Orleans, the city is growing about four times faster than the 'burbs
Four of the five most popular US airline routes involve a New York City airport
Brief thought exercise: has modern politics mostly become about Big Data and targeting?
Mass shootings are actually seemingly good for gun sales
No one really has any idea about the hangover, but your best bet is a fried breakfast
13 years after Andrea Yates drowned her children, what exactly is the deal with Michael Woroniecki?
Teenagers text about three times as much as they use Google or make phone calls in a given day
Why aren't direct job goals discussed more during the first-day/first-week onboarding process?
Brief thought exercise: could modern-day San Francisco someday go the way of Detroit?
On health care, patient engagement, and social physics
Does Robert Aderholt want your children to be fat?
Where do people seemingly want to work? In two words: San Francisco
The most important people on Wikipedia might be Carl Linnaeus, Jesus, Michael Jackson, and Hitler
Here are the various YouTubes you need to remember June 17, 1994, O.J. Simpson, and the Bronco chase
High school dropouts seem to be moving to Riverside, CA and Cape Coral, FL
Here comes Google Fit -- and maybe because Google AdWords isn't as healthy as we all think
Gregg Popovich and the lesson of sticking with someone (or sticking with it)
Can humans trust robots? No ... how about we ask whether robots can trust humans, eh?
If you're super popular at 13, you probably won't be at 22
Is Dublin, Ohio going to be the future of the American neighborhood?
Could Amy Cuddy, Microsoft Kinect, and the NYU Game Innovation Lab help eliminate "math anxiety?"
46% of the 736 World Cup 2014 players play in England, Italy, Germany or Spain during the year
Brief thought exercise: should recruiting really go through Human Resources?
Could Google Glass change the fundamental way we work?
The hiring process also falls apart because everything's ultimately a sale
Are hashtags going to become really valuable during the 2014 World Cup?
Jared Leto (yes, that Jared Leto) is now discussing the future of Human Resources
Maybe this is why everyone you ever talk to seems to be in the process of redesigning their website
Let's revisit the whole context of Spurs vs. Heat and "same teams back-to-back in the NBA Finals"
Will the culture of being busy lead to an Essentialist movement eventually?
Lloro, Colombia gets 523.6 inches of rain annually. Holy hell.
Uber had a $1.2 billion funding round, but please don't think it's worth $17 billion
Maybe it would make sense to think about corporate life in athlete terms
Do y'all think Julie Bowen was drunk on her episode of Hollywood Game Night? Quite possibly.
Jock Hutton is 89 and a D-Day veteran. He parachuted into Normandy on the anniversary.
We have the U.S. Navy to thank for the origins of happy hour
What Greyhound Bus Lines is doing might be the future of business in America
Song that hits you out of nowhere: Okkervil River's "Pink Slips"
Most urban sprawl, 2000-2010? Myrtle Beach. Least? Tallahassee.
Marketing and branding are really just synonyms for storytelling
After Lionel Messi and Neymar, does anyone at the World Cup have more pressure than Manuel Neuer?
Clayton Christensen vs. Michael Porter on MOOCs
Brief thought exercise: is it really reasonable to think El Chapo will stay in prison this time?
North Carolina is about to be the tipping point for the fracking debate in America
Can you truly slut-shame without knowing what a slut is?
Has LinkedIn really made recruiting that much better? (Probably not.)
The Five-Minute Rule could make your life a lot more rewarding
This is how you get your kids to eat vegetables
What happened to Jodi Huisentruit, and can we ever solve it conclusively?
Is Milwaukee the most racially and politically divided city in the United States?
Forget summer Fridays. Why do people work in an office on Fridays in the summer at all?
Brief thought exercise: Is pure/true altruism even possible?
Is social media ultimately more an engagement platform or a traffic driver?
When politics confuses you, remember this: it's mostly about voting by party
Potential might matter more than achievement, via research from Zakary Tormala at Stanford
How long should the ideal blog post be?
Is Cristiano Ronaldo's selfishness ultimately going to massacre his legacy?
Should you try and get feedback after a job search rejection, or should you move on?
Brief thought exercise: in a way, is actually having a child more selfish than not having one?
Here's a map of all the mass shootings in America, 1982-2013
How to get people to listen to you
Bristol-Meyers Squibb is apparently the best health care company at research and development
Air travel can be hellacious. But whom do you blame more: the airlines or the other passengers?
Lower income inequality = higher self-regard and self-satisfaction with your state, apparently
Is Kemper County, Mississippi going to be the future of the climate change battle?
Brief thought exercise: could you go five days only checking e-mail 8-10 times?
Krumbach, Austria is figuring out the future of the bus stop (well, not really)
Today is stop No. 1 on the 'Who's the real Monica Wehby?' tour
So realistically, when is Hillary Clinton going to announce she's running for President in 2016?
"Without humility, you are unable to learn." This is a message to managers in businesses.
Small Business Marketing Success Stories: Twitter
There is absolutely no one who saw Rangers-Canadiens coming as the NHL's Eastern Conference Finals
Small Business Marketing Success Stories: E-Mail Marketing
Brief thought exercise: in reality, does your job need to exist?
This Casey Wilson-Ken Marino "Marry Me" show looks like it's going to be terrible
Small Business Marketing Success Stories: Facebook
The future of politics (are you listening, Rand Paul?) could be addressable advertising
The origins of Mother's Day run back to Grafton, West Virginia
Oh goddamn, Whole Paycheck -- er, Whole Foods -- is in trouble and may be lowering prices
Brief thought exercise: is ridesharing service Uber racist, or the antithesis of racism?
Charles Duhigg on habits and habit formation: 'tis all about cue, routine and reward
Is the future of search engines going to be contextual search?
The Kentucky Derby, premature ejaculation, and funny horse names
Is Tim McVay (the boyfriend) the lead suspect in the Carrie Olson disappearance and murder?
Who did the best cover of Wrecking Ball? Haim? Masha? James Arthur? The Gregory Brothers?
Tucker County, West Virginia is the least diverse place in America. Cue the eye rolls.
Honda (a car company) and UC-Davis just built a smart home together. Wait, why?
Two sides of how far the world has evolved, in one airport trip
What happened with Abby Hernandez's disappearance in New Hampshire?
Let's hold off on writing Kay Hagan's political obituary until after May 6, alright?
Could something called TINYPulse save the idea of performance management/evaluations?
Is HBO's "Veep" the most underrated (or even the best) comedy on TV right now?
Apple is dead. Long live Apple!
Can the Brand Arc, via ZOO and Google, help marketers better understand how to tell their story?
Did Mad Men use the same foreshadowing clue as How I Met Your Mother once did?
Is Jeff Teague going to become a star as the Hawks beat the Pacers in Round 1?
If you're emotional at work, will that kill your career?
The first Earth Day was the result of Gaylord Nelson, Pete McCloskey, and Denis Hayes
Did Lagunitas beer really grow 85 percent from 2012 to 2013?
Laszlo Bock and Google's resume advice is good, but it isn't the be-all and the end-all
Will Atom Egoyan's "The Captive" be a career rebirth for both him and Ryan Reynolds?
Arturo Vittori, Andreas Vogler, and whether Warka Water could be the future in the developing world
Birmingham, Alabama is where college grads are the most segregated from everyone else, eh?
Is Google going to have problems with search advertising as more people shift to mobile?
"Remember that I'm doing you a favor:" The Maddie Yates YouTube suicide note
Let's compare the 10 largest occupations in America in 1999 and 2013, shall we? (Pause for sigh.)
Could you apply blue ocean marketing/consumer-type strategies to the idea of leadership?
Is anyone these days doing the trailer better than David Fincher-associated projects?
I was a corps member, then I worked at, Teach for America. Here are a couple of pro/con thoughts.
"The Neighbors" on ABC will likely get cancelled, but in some ways, it's better than "Modern Family"
Could a Boston-based company called XL Hybrids help change the world (and the climate)?
Is the disappearance of Jeramy Carl Burt tied to Jeannie Braun (or Jeannie El-Bakri)?
Just stop the MLB season now and give the World Series to the Milwaukee Brewers
Could we be nearing the end of 'death by PowerPoint?' (Could PowerPoint itself be dying?)
Brief thought exercise: does Mad Men need to end with Don, Roger or Pete dying?
Beef is now $5.28/pound, the highest since 1987. Is that going to shift habits over the next decade?
At some point, a company's organic reach on Facebook may hit zero
The shipping industry appears to be in trouble, environmentally and financially
Gird your loins: Brooklyn is now officially "Manhattan Part II"
New potential (logical?) use of social media: spotting disease/illness trends ahead of time
Here's a good quote regarding the length of the work week in a knowledge-based economy
What's the best city council in America? Austin, TX? Irvine, CA? Seattle, WA?
Is UberRush going to change the world, or ultimately make it more depressing?
What exactly has happened with the Canada-based NHL teams being so bad?
Could Smart Simplicity be the business model wave of the future?
Maybe something called Slack could revolutionize the workplace
Why does everyone call their e-mail marketing an "e-blast?"
Machiavelli predicted business silos in 1513, but that doesn't mean you have to be resigned to them
Somehow, 20 years after "The Mask," 2014 might be the year of Cameron Diaz
Here are five things I've learned trying to get a job out of graduate school in 2014
Here are the basic pros and cons of the "How I Met Your Mother" finale
Say it with me now: your products and processes are great, but your people do matter
Can we generate electricity from the oceans? Well, for damn sure China is going to try.
By 2015: 349.1 million tablets and 1.95 billion mobile phones shipped worldwide.
As How I Met Your Mother ends, here's a scientific look at what makes a great sitcom
Hulu has a billion dollars (not all profit). It appears to be re-investing in original shows.
If we can extend the length of human telomeres, can we basically end the era of humans dying?
30 percent of couples still meet through friends, and 15 percent of people may never get married
Is there a racist undertone to attitudes about the death penalty in the United States?
Is Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, Maine the best hospital in America? Maybe.
Perhaps the idea of "brainstorming" doesn't make any sense at all
Florida's Billy Donovan deserves a little bit more credit as a top-3 to top-5 college coach, no?
What's the situation with the Danielle Locklear disappearance?
Could hierarchy die out as millennials dominate the workforce? Not so fast, my friend...
Gallup chimes in on the where-you-should-live idea with Provo, Utah (joining everyone else)
So, is Venice going to secede from Italy?
Brief thought exercise: is your job what you think you do, tell people you do, or actually do?
Stop telling me how busy you are
Timothy Jay Vafeades, the "Vampire Trucker," apparently kept women as sex slaves in his truck.
Starbucks will eventually sell alcohol in about 1,000 stores. And so it begins.
On Larry Page, dreaming big, and anonymous health care "big data"
In the NCAA Tournament, will we ever see a 16-seed beat a 1-seed?
In 1994, there were 537 craft breweries in America. Now there are 2,768. Thank you, Jimmy Carter?
Matt Teeters and the tricky dance of politics and education in Wyoming
Brian David Mitchell and Whitey Bulger are in the same prison unit in Tucson, eh?
Is the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System a danger to both pilots and birds?
Why is the NCAA Tournament called 'March Madness?'
Employee engagement and the Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report: What can we learn?
What can we learn about consuming pop culture from the TED 'Ads Worth Spreading' list?
We love to talk about drones and Amazon. But what if drones could really help Africa?
The annual spending on men's wear is up 70 percent since 1998. Here we go...
Political trend line: young white millennials are basically libertarians. Can they save the GOP?
Oh look, Peter Lanza has begun speaking to the media
Public transportation ridership rose 37 percent from 1995 to 2013. That's a good thing, right?
Lena Dunham, of Girls fame, is hosting Saturday Night Live tonight. How's this going to go?
The median age of a TV viewer is now 54. Has advertising basically become a junk science?
PBR and hipsters: maybe the best marketing is to avoid the big marketing, eh?
So, is Steve Carrell going to win Best Actor next year for Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher?
Did you know 89 billion business e-mails are sent in a given day? (Smashes face into desk.)
Brief thought exercise: what percentage of conversation in a given day is transactional/small talk?
Ultimate life hacks: flow and making tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge
If you interview inmates about their decision-making when they were younger, what can you learn?
Did David Cicarella and John DeStefano mark the future of teachers' union compromises in New Haven?
The Oscar Bump: King's Speech went from $57 million to $136 million (and this stuff happens a lot)
Could the Seattle Mariners (and Robinson Cano) be this year's MLB sleeper team?
The U.S. needs more bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. A good example of why would be Buffalo, NY.
The Atacama Desert, in Chile, is a mass graveyard for nine million year-old whales. What gives?
Could a $25 Firefox OS phone be a true game-changer in terms of linking up the developing world?
The conversation on networking is skewed. It's really all about the context of the hand-off.
The Naomi Richmond-David Richmond-robbers heart attack story is awful and amazing all at once
Shift your narrative, bro: men actually work at home more than women, in most cases
Did Warby Parker shift the entire retail model?
What exactly is happening at Ole Miss in terms of the racism these days?
The GOP spends too much time talking about "culture," which is an amorphous blob of a term
Across America's 50 largest cities, the lowest inequality is in Virginia Beach
The most popular two words to rhyme in modern pop music history might be "do" and "you"
Megan Draper, Bob Benson, and of course Don Draper ... what might happen in Mad Men Season 7?
In this era of Amazon and Google, could we finally drastically lower the cost of textbooks?
A company from Israel is saving the Alps for skiing and tourism (with an idea from a Siberian gulag)
Could a mouth swab for cortisol levels change how we approach mental illness?
If you're single, the best place to live is probably Colorado Springs or El Paso
The key to understanding love on Valentine's Day isn't Hallmark, it's the insula and the striatum
Recruiting and how the 'Rule of 3' breaks down: communication, meetings, cross-purposes
Wall Theory: Are American relationships more superficial?
Dov Charney and the moving target of cheap labor
Alan Webber, the founding editor of Fast Company, is running for Governor of New Mexico. Can he win?
The base issue with long-term unemployment, and the job search, really just comes back to caring
Why did the Copenhagen Zoo have to kill Marius the Giraffe anyway? Ah yes, science vs. emotion
Hello, friends: Jim Nantz and Phil Simms are probably working 23 NFL games as announcers in 2014
Because of EMV, you won't sign credit card receipts anymore after about October 2015
ObamaCare won't cost America 2 million jobs, but the end of the Baby Boomers probably will
Brazil, Canada and Australia have some of the lowest homophobia rates in the world
The middle ground of setting goals for your employees at work is extremely murky
Is Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods or soccer ultimately responsible for the best NIKE ad of all-time?
What's up with the over-use and obsession on acronyms in American business and professional culture?
Microsoft's second big move of the week, after Satya Nadella: investing $15 million in FourSquare
Could Miles Teller become the next Leonardo DiCaprio?
Could Jose Salvador Alvarenga really have survived 13 months or so floating at sea?
Would it be possible to develop your Super Bowl chili recipes via only YouTube? Seems plausible.
"Without Lake Mead, there wouldn't be Las Vegas" -- so are we eventually going to lose Las Vegas?
Let's all talk about creationism in schools ranging from Louisiana to South Dakota
Cord-cutting, Time Warner analytics, and why the WWE model makes the most sense
Did Michelle Sollicito and social media just save Atlanta from an even bigger mess?
Bill de Blasio gets all the ink, but maybe Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is the real city-redefiner
Chipotle has a new TV show on Hulu called Farmed and Dangerous. Wait, what? Chipotle has a TV show?
Is the next big thing going to be a solar-powered Macbook from Apple?
Can we solve the Morgan Harrington murder (the Metallica disappearance case) soon?
This President Obama State of the Union word cloud is all about America and unity
Performance reviews / evaluations are mostly a train wreck that everyone hates. So what do we do?
Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Defense, and how the banned Super Bowl ad culture seems to work
What will Obama discuss in the State of the Union address tonight?
What's up with Daft Punk and the helmets anyway?
The Christina Schumacher Vermont story is one of the worst you'll ever hear
Niger Innis, in bed with ExxonMobil and running for Congress in Nevada, is a story to watch
"So what do you think you say in a concession speech?" The Mitt Romney profile is now on Netflix
The real key to the Super Bowl isn't Peyton Manning or Richard Sherman; it's Kam Chancellor
Ah, the future of social media as local social? Meet Nextdoor
Privacy and big data discussions have now extended to the farmers, via Monsanto and John Deere
Joe McCormack and -- OMG, no one is listening to anyone else literally at all in the workplace
Why do we still have the Olympics, in reality? (Also, goddamn it costs a lot.)
Patrick Moen and Paul Schmidt left the Oregon DEA to work ... in the medical marijuana industry?
Yea, this is pretty much why a lot of America is obese and/or fat -- but there's hope
Living one's life through Macklemore lyrics
On Eli Pariser and the algorithm bubble
Singapore really loves downing Scotch whisky, it appears
Tremendous truism about Big Data: C-Level executives value it, but have no idea what to do with it
How Google, Mercedes Benz and other top companies become "the best places to work"
My hair is the reason America's hiring practices and talent strategy is off
The untested execution of Dennis McGuire in Ohio can be viewed through a couple of different lenses
An iPhone costs about $872 U.S. in China, and yet, they're flying off the shelves
What exactly is happening with NC State and President Obama's ideas on manufacturing?
Here's how you shave some money off the $1.1 trillion budget: penis pumps
Facebook just got into bed with Russia (well, more specifically, with Yandex)
In which things like Badgeville and gamification destroy the office world
What exactly is happening with the contaminated water situation in West Virginia right now?
How big a deal are the Koch Brothers and their dark money?
A Packers fan, Jon Niemuth, is the reason it's impossible to beat the Seattle Seahawks at home
2016 Alert: As Chris Christie struggles with bridges, Marco Rubio turns to poverty as an issue
Why isn't Sofia Vergara a bigger movie star?
Marissa Mayer is apparently rolling the dice on digital magazines
Is The Big Chill the best 'friends-reuniting' movie of all-time?
If you like beer, get yourself to Guangzhou, China
The Rapid Packing Container could change all our lives for the better
The age of Mia Love is now upon us all
On 60 Minutes and the cleantech / Vinod Khosla story
How can we help the homeless when temperatures get this low?
Casper, Wyoming is now the hub for athletes looking for quick, painless surgery
Is Chicago safer, or is it a mirage?
This one paragraph essentially summarizes one of America's biggest challenges today
Here comes Ted Stevenot in Ohio
What might the airport of the future look like?
Some important Big Data milestones around gay rights, marijuana, and the U.S. role as a global cop
Why can't it be Philip Rivers' year?
Phil Keating, FOX News, and the most American way to bring in 2014