One-week special: Sign up and get free email Getting Unstuck help from Bob! Click to subscribe or read on Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson have helped the Miami Heat win consecutive NBA titles. Their book, The Plateau Effect/Getting Unstuck, has been featured on the cover of O! Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, and [Keep reading]
Noooooo. Once again I will invoke the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt, the TrustBuster. Cell phone carrier Sprint is said to be on the verge of a deal to acquire T-Mobile. That would shrink the number of large U.S. carriers from four to three. American cell phone service is already too expensive [Keep reading]
Verizon Wireless is rewarding long-term customers by tricking them into joining a ‘rewards’ program that A) Feels and works just like those yucky penny auction sites B) let’s Verizon consume and sell immense amounts very sensitive personal information about you. A very strong “boo,” to Verizon. Please stop abusing my [Keep reading]
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The floodgates opened on the Right to be Forgotten this weekend, with 12,000 requests landing at search engine giant Google within the first 24 hours of a temporary form being made available. You’ll recall that a European court recently ruled that EU citizens enjoy a Right to be Forgotten, [Keep reading]
There is still something rotten in Denmark. And in our economy. Yes, the housing market has stabilized and the “headline” unemployment number seems under control. (We’ll get back to that in a moment.) But signs of a fragile economy are everywhere, if you know where to look. A big one [Keep reading]
How do you think the big computers in the sky see you? Are you “Rural Everlasting” or a “Mobile Mixer?” Are you a “Married Sophisticate,” a “Senior Product Buyer,” a “dog owner,” and “winter activity enthusiast,” “Bible Lifestyle” or an “Affluent Baby Boomer?” Maybe you are “Financially Challenged,” or “Plus [Keep reading]
Lauren Oak was watching her own young children, babysitting her infant nephew, and caring for her wheelchair-bound father when the phone rang and brought on the scariest moment of her life. “They said they were from the IRS, that I owed $16,000, that a warrant had been issued for my [Keep reading]
During Memorial Day weekend, a Facebook product manager named Mike Hudack published a sarcasm-dripping rant about the state of media, and the failure of new entrants into the marketplace. (“Personally I hoped that we would find a new home for serious journalism in a format that felt Internet-native and natural [Keep reading]
“Driving is not about getting the car going in the right direction. Driving is about constantly paying attention, making a little correction this way, a little correction that way.” Kent Beck, creator of Agile programming. The nice thing about co-authoring a book is that someone else writes half of it. [Keep reading]
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