Week 21 - Reform & Justice Now. Change Tomorrow.
The collective movement and protests these past few days happening across the nation (and world) are truly powerful. It is impossible to convince ourselves...
Week 20 - Memorial
If you haven't noticed, I took a break from writing this last week. The primary reason being, I was a bit burnt out from trying to tie some thread together...
Week 19 - Graduating into something different
Around this time of year it's typically graduation season across college campuses. And many of these campuses are looking empty this time around. I grew a...
Week 18 - Accelerating Change
The way businesses are adapting in these challenging conditions is like watching survivor. On one side of the spectrum many are barely scraping by possibly...
Week 17 - Data Up, Down, In, Out
Every week paints a new picture of how the economy is reacting to the COVID crisis. It's amazing to see all the data roll in and talk about unemployment...
Week 16 - Creative Workarounds
I've often heard within the right constraints, you can be the most creative than you'd ever imagine. And with much of the global society still in lock down,...
Week 15 - Antiquated Trade in a Modern Society
Witnessing the way humans, society, or even industries adapt to stay relevant or modernize has been amazing to read about this past week. And many things we...
Week 14 - Loopholes
Loopholes are generally seen as exceptions which allows a system to be circumvented or avoided. These exist in many forms in society and it's always...
Week 13 - Two Truths (on money) & One Lie (on health)
Let's start with one truth that was made shockingly clear this week. Over six million claims were filed for unemployment this week. Six. That doubled from...
Week 12 - Timing for everything when equity is everything
As COVID-19 spreads every week, I seem to learn how it infects industries as well at the same time. Sifting through stories I read this week, I found the...
Week 11 - Collateral damage
One of the benefits of writing this newsletter is it forces me to think & read between the lines to see something going on in the world since the week...
Week 10 - One secret & one not-so-secret
The not-so-secret for this week is that covid-19 continues to upend practically ever industry that operates today. The toll that the virus is taking on the...
Week 9 - Viral Coefficient, I mean, R Naught?
The thing dominating the news this past week has been the impact of COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) on everything globally. The spread of coronavirus made me...
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Week 8 - New providers means new access to X ... at what cost?
I keep coming across articles these past few weeks about old business dying (aka going bankrupt) while new business (aka startup style companies) thrive by...
Week 7 -- Hidden Deceptions
One emerging theme from this week I’ve found is the constant unveiling of hidden things in the seemingly normalcy of life. Ride-sharing is great they said,...
Week 6 - Visual decryptions
Keeping this newsletter fresh with new Internet treasures/findings throughout the week has been challenging. Especially considering last week I came down...
Week 5 - Monopolies in Plain Sight (sick edition)
I’m keeping this one short because I came down with a stomach virus over the weekend. But these two write-ups made me think a lot about something we rarely...
Week 4 - Distribution is everything
The concept of "distribution" has been on my mind lately. I say this loosely, because distribution can mean so much in a physical sense. Think sending...
Week 3 - Reinventing yourself
Trying to find a new angle to how you navigate the world is a conversation topic I found myself having with many folks this week. Whether it was finding a...
Week 2 - Out with the old, in with the new
January always feels like it's time for a change. You can see this play out with new redesigns being rolled out. People making changes to healthcare plans....