Nike’s mastery of grammar descriptivism is what takes their creative to another level. A note from the author: I have zero problems or qualms with Colin Kaepernick, or the recent Nike ad I’m piggybacking on to get you to click on this article. I respect him doing his thing, and don’t have any particularly strong feelings, positive or […]

Or how we sacrifice our privacy and receive nothing in return We’re running out of visual metaphors to conceptualize the amount of data that technology companies hold about us. Amazon is shipping our data in 18-wheelers, Google has built 15 small villages around the worldto store our information, and Facebook just granted scholars to 52 tons of pepperoni pizzas worth […]

It’s Time to Get Comfortable with Uncertainty. “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail,” was the advice of Benjamin Franklin and every sanctimonious boss that ever lived. Yet what happens when our very plans set us up for failure? We’ve all heard about the importance of planning. It’s an easy thing to preach, […]

The biggest Ponzi scheme ever was conducted by Bernie Madoff with an estimated loss of $20 Billion to 4,800 investors. What is scary is that when I look at those figures compared to the Blockchain ICO numbers from 2016 they don’t even look that big. There have been many ICO’s that have raised more than […]

Constantinople, ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade, is coming soon to a node near you. Finalized August 31, Constantinople includes five different ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs). Once released on ethereum, the proposals will permanently alter the blockchain with a host of new backwards-incompatible upgrades. This means that nodes — the network of computers that run ethereum software — […]

An infrastructure defines the fundamental physical and organizational structures of any society or enterprise. For consumer goods and electronics manufacturers, their supply chain infrastructure consists of both physical and digital assets needed to get products made, transported from point A to B (and back) and sold to the end customer. It stretches across suppliers and […]

Why businesses love it If you want to buy a beer at Flatstick pub in Seattle, don’t whip out a $10 bill to pay—you’ll walk away thirsty. Flatstick, a hot new mini-chain in the Pacific Northwest, doesn’t take cash. Neither does Bluestone Lane, a coffee chain with locations in New York, Philly and D.C. Patrons […]

By Laura Desmond “If it was easy, everyone would do it.” — anonymous I’ve spent much of my career as an entrepreneur and investor building companies that sell to educational institutions and advising entrepreneurs who sell to them. Selling to educational institutions is, if not the biggest, one of the biggest challenges to scaling an education startup. […]

By Millena Miller There’s not one secret recipe to becoming an amazing social media manager (if only it were that easy), but making sure you have the full range of essential skills to do the job well certainly helps. And it’s a good time to be getting in the game. Social media manager was number […]

By Laura Desmond Facebook is planning a major new move into e-commerce, sources tell The Verge Instagram is working on a new standalone app dedicated to shopping, The Verge has learned. The app — which may be called IG Shopping — will let users browse collections of goods from merchants that they follow and purchase […]