Often overlooked is the decision every marketer makes about how they will treat the issue of power (asymmetrical or not) in their marketing. Consider insurance. Companies like Allstate don't market th
Nov 25th 2019 EVEN ITS most ardent admirers will admit that the Tatra T77A (pictured below) is an oddity. It is long and low-slung, almost porpoise-shaped, with a rounded front, tapered rear and a fin
I talk a lot about product culture and how important it is, but one inconvenient fact has always bothered me, which is that my favorite product companies – for example, Google, Apple and Amazon – all
Tell me if this is familiar: You go to Target or Costco, just to buy a couple of things. Some shampoo. Bananas if they’re ripe. Then you go to check out and somehow you’ve spent $180. You stare at the
The other day, a copy of the new Baffler came in the mail. Back in the nineties, published out of Chicago and edited by Thomas Frank, The Baffler articulated an
Nov 21st 2019 Good Economics for Hard Times. By Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. PublicAffairs; 432 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25. W HEN THE authors of this excellent book were awarded the Nobel prize
Here’s Stephen Harrigan (talking about his book, Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas ) and a reproduction of one of Botticelli’s paintings of St. Augustine . (Like almost all writers, St. Augustin
Nov 21st 2019 W HEN BRIGITTE BARDOT was on the set of “The Legend of Frenchie King”, with a crowd of photographers snapping her, Terry O’Neill was waiting. Not, like the others, for the moment she wou
Published 23 November 2019 Share page About sharing image copyright Chris Atkins/PA image caption British Transport Police said they are looking to identify a man harassing families with anti-Semitic
Kipchoge had attemped to break the two-hour mark once before, in 2017 A week before the big day, in the middle of the night, Eliud Kipchoge was fast asleep at his training base in the hills of Kenya.
The first rule of cross-examination at trial is that you never ask a question that you don’t already know the answer to. Inquiry has a place. Inquiry in the pursuit of science, of discovery and of lea
Something look funny? Read this newsletter online! Hey, Happy Friday! I cannot believe we only have one week left of November?? Bananas! And on that note, you only have until this Sunday to catch the
Nov 23rd 2019 A FTER ALMOST two decades of visiting and living in India, it was only after your columnist had his first child there that he glimpsed the soul of the place. Everyone loves a baby, but I
In 3Q 2014 Google had $16.5 billion in revenue and $2.8 billion in profit. I proceeded to write an article entitled Peak Google . Fast forward to last quarter, and Google had $36 billion in revenue an
5-Hour Workdays? 4-Day Workweeks? Yes, Please Sick of round-the-clock work emails and Slack messages? Here’s some hope. Nov. 6, 2019 Credit... Tess Smith-Roberts By Dr. Newport is the author of “Digit
Nov 7th 2019 C REEPY CRAWLIES intrigued him. Beetles, centipedes, cockroaches, crickets, geckos, toads and snakes. The way they devoured each other while at the same time providing sustenance for thei
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