“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.” Those were the words of Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher from the 1700s who thought that knowledge was rapidly advancing towards perfection. Were he alive today, Mr. Bentham might be truly amazed at how technology is being used to make the […]
Developing a media brand takes a long time, especially if you’re bootstrapping it while everyone works a day job. When you finally start getting some momentum and brand recognition, that’s when all the emails start flooding in. Some are painful, like public relations people wanting you to drop what you’re doing and write about their […]
Human history is full of bad deals. We’re all familiar with one of the world’s worst dealmakers whose ambitions for power and pleasure are famously nearly limitless. We’re talking, of course, about Faust, who trades his soul for magic and mischief. It’s really a bad deal considering that he gets a few years of fun […]
Way back in 1967, a couple of psychologists named Holmes and Rahe discovered a positive correlation between illness and stressful life events. Thus was born the “Holmes and Rahe Stress Inventory,” a list of 43 stressful life events that can literally make you sick. Of the top-10 items on that list that are bound to get […]
The science fiction universe is populated by all sorts of crime-fighting artificial intelligence (AI) machines. David Hasselhoff had KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) in Knight Rider. Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, relies on JARVIS (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System). RoboCop was a well-armed fighting cyborg that melded man and machine. Today, researchers and companies […]
The rampant spread of artificial intelligence (AI) across all industries is happening so fast that our MBAs can barely keep up with it, making us wonder – when can we just replace our MBAs with artificial intelligence and never have to hear about Porter’s 5 Forces ever again? Just about every stakeholder out there who has an economic […]
People always express a distaste for lawyers but nobody really elaborates as to why. The main reason is that lawyers know you have to use their services so they do stupid isht like charge ridiculous rates and bill you just to have a conversation with them. When we think about lawyers, we often think about that dude […]