When people are looking to buy products for their business, they often ignore things that have the “gaming” tag on them. They want solid business tools, not toys for gamers. I think they’re often wrong. Recently, my wife needed a new computer chair that had better back support, so we…

The pace of content on the internet already seems to be at a blistering speed. Twitter sees roughly 350,000 tweets per minute. Users watch roughly 4.5M YouTube videos every minute. Add in other social networks like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, and the numbers are unreal. With that we haven’t even…

For most people, most of the time, if they find themselves in a situation where they feel dumb, they likely just got smarter. It can happen two ways: First, it might be that you’re immediately corrected with more factual information. This happened to me a few years ago with a…

I wasn’t a very good student in high school. I got decent test scores, but a pretty weak GPA. If I could go back and do it again, I think I’d handle things much differently. …

AI-generated art is an area that is growing incredibly quickly. In most cases, these tools allow you to type in a short description of what you want and the system will create the image automatically. A recent episode of the Cortex podcast got into it quite a bit, and it…

A few weeks ago, a buddy of mine sent me a text inviting me to a trivia night with him. That was a personal invitation. Before that, a friend reached out inviting me to play a round of golf with him. That was a personal invitation. More and more, though…

It’s often easier said than done, but the more you can make your operating system irrelevant, the better. This came up while I was listening to a recent episode of the Cortex podcast, and the hosts were lamenting a problem in getting something to work between a Mac and a…

In a recent episode of the “Hidden Brain” podcast, host Shankar Vedandam had Adam Grant on as a guest. They were discussing some details in the history of the Vietnam War and how things unfolded, and Adam said something that I thought was fascinating, but it was right in line…

With football season once again in full swing, out come the people that are sure that the refs are biased against their team. It doesn’t matter what team they pull for — the refs are seemingly against every team, which doesn’t really make sense. Certainly refs are imperfect at every…