The Digital Revolution IRL
Are we misusing the word ‘digital’? It seems like every single “modernized” company, ultra-hip startup, re-branded brand, attention-starved tech blog, and “forward-thinking” agency peppers their content with ‘digital’...
Future of Work
WeChat: One App to Rule Them All
If you’ve been to China, one of the most striking cultural differences is how the Chinese use their phones. Kids, millennials, businessmen, and grannies alike—everyone in China seems...
Creative Spark: Tech and Art
Anyone remember the early days of Microsoft Paint? It was a pretty rudimentary computer-aided design— basically just drawing pixel-by-pixel. For a lot of us, though, it was the...
The Sunny Side of Side Hustle
Own up to it: it’s been six months since you bought your screen printing kit (or brewing supplies, or soldering kit, or pottery wheel, or loom, or whatever)...
The New Robot in the Office
What’s your job even mean anymore? We recommend you read this article to find out. However, much like “42,” this answer won’t make sense until you ask the...
80% Bot, 20% Human
Let’s stop making this about competition for a second. Because there is no real competition here— there are plenty of things bots will beat humans at every time....
WFH: Is Your Home Office NSFW?
Instead of fluorescent office lights, there’s a soft light coming in from your living room window. Instead of your rigid desk chair, the familiarity of your sofa. Here,...
The Blank Collar Equation: The Future of Work
Work Is For Bots. Life Is For Humans. We were all generalists once. There was the town doctor, the town repairman, and the school teacher. But with the...
The End of the Professional Human Specialist
If you read it, you were certainly wowed by the article in Wired called “Chill: Robot’s Won’t Take Your Job. This article isn’t just a patronizing, pacifying fluff...
A Digital Infusion For Market Research
In the past, marketing simply meant putting sugary breakfast cereals on shelves that were at kid’s eye-level. But now, in the age of AmazonFresh, that will no longer...