Connecting Data to Wealth Creation
You’ve seen it. We’ve all seen it. You try to visit a website, maybe to read an article or check a score, and BAM. A digital brick wall slams down in front of your face. Access to this page has been denied. it scolds, "because we believe yo...
The Three Faces of 'Ergo': How a Word for Logic Became a Signal for Everything Else The data streams that cross my desk are typically a predictable mix of earnings reports, market sentiment indices, and SEC filings. But recently, a peculiar...
So, I’m scrolling through the news feed, and my brain is doing that thing where it tries to connect two completely unrelated stories. It’s like my own personal, broken algorithm. On one tab, I’ve got Ukraine’s Navy Commander talking about t...
So a helicopter just falls out of the sky. Not in some remote jungle or over the ocean, but right onto a pedestrian bridge in Huntington Beach, California, during a damn car show. It slams down with a sickening "pop, pop," as one witness pu...
Generated Title: 5G Promised Capacity. A Baseball Game Proves It's Still Just a Promise. For nearly a decade, the telecommunications industry has sold us a vision of 5G. The narrative had two primary pillars: speed and capacity. The speed p...
So, The University of Texas at Austin is having a good week. A really good week. The kind of week a corporate PR department dreams about. The football team stomped their rival, a professor landed a "genius grant," and a pesky legal problem...
I Searched for a Story in Champaign, Illinois and All I Got Was This Lousy Cookie Policy. So they told me to find the story. Dig into Champaign, Illinois, they said. See what’s happening. And what I found is the perfect, soul-crushing monum...
The New Anatomy of Civil War: From Partisan Polls to Paramotor Attacks ====================================================================== Let’s start with the numbers, because they present a curious discrepancy. The current administrati...
Nike's Fairy Tale About a Black Dress Is Everything Wrong With Corporate Storytelling So I’m scrolling through the digital sludge pile we call the internet, and Maria Sharapova Legacy of the Nike Little Black Tennis Dress — NIKE, Inc. lands...
For years, the story of the electromagnetic railgun was one of America’s brilliant, heartbreaking failures. Headlines read like an obituary: ‘Cracked Barrels’: The U.S. Navy’s Big Railgun Failure Explained in Just 2 Sad Words. And for a whi...