Of all the things that the news cycle has brought us in the turmoil of the past few years, nothing has sucked me in more than the Varsity Blues College Entry Fraud scandal. Maybe because I was angry at hearing from first grade that my grades mattered, and that my access to a non-failed life […]
Like many people I know who work in marketing and sales, my guilty pleasure is watching episodes of Shark Tank online. This is a reality TV show where entrepreneurs make presentations to a panel of business personalities with the hope of getting them to invest in whatever the presenter is selling. Somehow after 10 seasons […]
When we extract customer impressions of our client’s products and services, we embrace the beauty of meaningful data. Similarly, as conversations turn to politics – as they oftentimes do in today’s contentious times – sources of voter leanings get put into the spotlight and we embrace those as well. Recently, the political conversation has been […]
Recently I was working in a café, people watching every time I took a sip of my cappuccino. The café was very pleasing to the eye. White tile, driftwood accents, greenery hanging from every wall and natural lighting filled the space. After an hour or two, I was amazed at how many people who walked […]
To me, Valentine’s Day is an odd quasi-holiday unlike other commonly celebrated holidays. It can be polarizing: a fun day of heart-shaped candy and flowers for some, and for others, a day wrought with anxiety they feel could make or break their relationship due to the overwhelming societal pressure. To begin, it seems history is […]
Over the past 2-3 years, I’ve noticed an increase of people using their cell phones as walkie-talkies, and/or wanting to share their FaceTime moments with the world, in public places like coffee shops, restaurants, mass transit and airports. All too often, there are people conducting open conversations from planning family dinners, to (more worryingly) discussing […]
2018 was a fantastic year as the Ideba Global Education Ambassador. It started at an Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon, where our team attended the school assembly. When the assembly finished, we went from classroom to classroom passing out tons of school supplies, all of which we had donated. The teachers were over the moon […]
Corporate America wants it both ways. They are hell bent on making it extremely difficult for you to engage human-to-human, while pushing employees to act (inappropriately), like you’re best buds. I have heard of the Internet. Even use it on occasion. When I call a corporate support line, it means that I have exhausted the […]
I don’t typically watch documentaries, barely making it a quarter the way through a Netflix murderer-of-some-sort series and then realize I just don’t care whodunnit. But after all the weekend hype, I watched the documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened – about millennial superfluity and truly fake news of influencer culture. Sure, it […]
