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It’s not a word, but perhaps it should be. If a competitor goes after your customers by offering them faster service, all day and all night, you’ve been anytimed. And if your boss, fear…

Experts say studying those who have not yet caught Covid has become just as critical as studying those who have.

"I am a professional rememberer," writes Nathan Rabin in The Joy of Trash. "It is my duty to remember not just...

Why exploring different hubs of your company’s network will become an increasingly popular option.

What’s the variance in customer service at your organization? Even if there’s just one employee, the question is: If an issue is handled by a committed employee having a good attitude, …

Utopias are easier to find in the past than they are in the future. This, I think, is the source of The Automat's greatness. The documentary, which impressively runs at this year's Seattle Jewish Film Festival, is about a possibility that has already been realized—and it is the nature of time that makes the past more real than the future. The possibility was expressed by a 20th-century American business model for selling meal items through...

A reader writes: This is a situation currently unfolding at my husband's office so I’m a very amused bystander and thought I’d get your opinion on this

In light of some recent discussions, I thought I'd repost some tentative thoughts on the subject (based on a 2005...

Posted on Monday 28 Mar 2022. 1,141 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.

Read to the end for a sick trampoline video

White House records turned over to the Jan. 6 investigation and obtained by media are missing 7 hours of Trump’s phone logs. The missing papers are from Jan. 6, while Congress was being sacke…

The reserves of some rare earth minerals used in electronics, medical equipment and renewable energy could run out in less than 100 years.

Because the talk about inflation and high gas prices is endless, we can assume that it's pretty much empty. What is of much greater importance, and never makes the headlines, or has little political value for both the mainstream left and the right as a whole, is stock buybacks, which, according to Associated Press, reached a mind-boggling $882 billion in 2021. And "Goldman Sachs is forecasting [that this form of stock manipulation will] reach $1...

The maker of How to Survive a Plague on his new HBO documentary, How to Survive a Pandemic.

Fully automated luxury communism could give us our lives back.

The cypherpunks were wrong (but also right)

This simple three-part lesson can save you a great deal of time, money, and energy.

For eight years, Nigeria hairdresser Damy Idowu ran her business in a commercial district of Lagos, surviving growing inflation, recession and the global pandemic.

In their seminal book, "Radical Markets," Eric Posner and Glen Weyl introduce quadratic voting to improve (or radicalize) democratic preference voting. They argue that by allowing voters to

The joys of having stuff

The typical online job site lists millions of jobs. And just about every one of them is a cry for expertise. From the title to the requirements, companies hire for expertise. Logic helps us underst…

Bad drivers do this often, everywhere I’ve ever been in the world. Instead of gracefully and safely slowing for a light they know will be red by the time they get there, or even a stop sign, …