Concert tickets are so expensive because of income inequality. Yes, the Internet allows scalpers and StubHub (the same thing?) to reach a national audience, but in the old days supply exceeded demand to an even greater extent and despite the presence of scalpers, prices were never this high. The difference is now there’s a whole […]

EVERYBODY KNOWS 1. Most tweets go unread. Just because you tweet, don’t expect your followers to see it. Few view their feed comprehensively. They check in and check out. Catching only bits and pieces. Even forgetting your fake and dormant followers, which are voluminous, far fewer than fifty percent of your followers see one of […]

If only you could truly erase the past… Watching the Geffen doc. last night one was constantly struck by the fact that despite having oodles of money and access to the best medical professionals available, David Geffen, Cher and especially Marlo Thomas had tighter skin…but they looked…different. I’m not sure where this obsession for plastic […]

SONY Succeeded with radical breakthroughs. Failed with incremental improvements. Shed your past if you want to succeed in the future. You may be angry that Apple changed its connector, but look what backward compatibility did for Microsoft… It kept the company in the doldrums to the point where the Redmond enterprise completely missed tablet computing […]