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We’ve noted our worries about automation displacing human jobs before, but it’s also possible that at least in the mid-term, the worries are overblown as we were reminded when reading an article recently that asserted truck drivers’ jobs would change, not be eliminated, with the advent of self-driving trucks. Of course, some jobs we may welcome […]
For reasons we won’t go into here, we’ve been researching the TV show, This is Us, which led us down a tangential rabbit hole researching the song, Blues Run the Game, which led to reading up on Jackson C Frank, who wrote the song, and who has the seventh saddest Wikipedia write-up ever. If you are ever despairing of […]
In what we don’t believe will serve as a useful metaphor of our world’s strange times, when we were filling our tank the other day at a gas station, a large white truck started to back into the pump position next to ours. But the driver of the Ford F150 kept backing and backing up […]
Ignorance is bliss, they say. Apparently this adage is from a 1747 poem by Thomas Gray. Who is Thomas Gray you ask? Well, refer back to the first sentence. At any rate we’re reminded of this old saying by the multitude of data and insights that are used in sports nowadays. Baseball strategy has been […]
During our knee surgery convalescence, we caught up on a fair amount of television, especially when we were on pain killers which dulled our ability to read. Pain killers also prevented us from creating a spreadsheet tracking the number of sexual harassers involved in the shows we were watching. We think and hope the number […]
We return to you this week, if not triumphantly, then with a limp and a cane, from knee replacement surgery. We’ve learned many things over the last few weeks. Nurses tend to be angels, and physical therapists aren’t far behind, even when inflicting pain in you (all for a good cause, of course). Our tolerance […]
We had just returned to campus from the Christmas holiday during our sophomore year of college when it happened. We were playing in a pick-up basketball game in the university’s main gym and our team kept winning so we kept playing, taking on all comers on the court. We were getting tired and a little […]
We’ve long wondered how cats planned to subvert humankind and complete their take over of the world. They’ve made a good start by conning us into feeding them, massaging them and playing with them with fake mice and feathers attached to sticks at their whim. But now they are fully implementing their devious and cruel […]
Last year for a client we interviewed a variety of small companies regarding their challenges and opportunities in doing business. It was remarkable how many of them commented on the difficulties they faced in competing with large companies. And not natural differences stemming from economies of scale but rather from rent seeking that has been […]
New Orleans continues to be the greatest city in the world (and we’ve seen lots of world cities to compare it to) even though like most cities today the finely manicured claws of gentrification are rooting out some of the creative messiness that makes it great. Nearly every one of our Uber, Lyft and taxi […]