The mid terms are coming up and the top-tier issues are there – budget deficits, immigration, me too – but the second tier issue of technology policy is a surprising area of bipartisanship – for the most part. To help us unpack where the political… Read More »Tech Policy & Midterm Elections with Dr. Roslyn Layton
Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB’s labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors “were an abomination … if you’re selling a sport and the players don’t care about winning, that’s not a sport. That’s a… Read More »Salary Caps, Pro Sports & Mediocrity with Bruce Dowbiggin
Banks change their goals, but how are borrowers supposed to know that. How do you choose a bank for a loan? Proximity to your home or work? That seems arbitrary. A marketplace that matches borrowers with lenders who have similar goals — that’s a service.… Read More »Magilla’s a Matchmaker for Lenders, Borrowers with
Today, many cannabis manufacturers and cultivators are having a hard time creating safe and trusted products for the state of California. Since July 1st, nearly 20 percent of marijuana products have failed tests for potency and purity. Another sign of the efficacy of the marijuana… Read More »Canadian Marijuana Corp Sunniva Settles into California with Sunniva
Middle management often gets a bad rap. But for the managers who work in that space between their team and the boss, the importance of their role in the success of an organization cannot be overstated. Here’s my conversation with a 25-year veteran of management… Read More »Making Middle Management Cool (Again?) with Nathan Jamail
The political weather outside is frightful. Navigating the storms, politically speaking, can be tough for startups — as if they don’t have enough moving parts to contend with, right? Enter: Bradley Tusk. Mr Tusk is a political strategist with a pedigree. He helped Michael Bloomberg… Read More »Combining Politics, Venture Capital to Help Startups Survive with Bradley Tusk
One could forgive Change Research for titling its victory-lap email ‘Nailed It!’ Change Research was the only polling firm to correctly predict the winner of the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Florida, Andrew Gillum. Mike Greenfield, CEO and co-founder of Change Research, joins us this week… Read More »Taking Political Polling to Next-Level Accuracy with Mike Greenfield
Technology is integrating it more and more in our lives, with smart devices, improved internet access on the go, and improvements in nearly everything we touch. The jobs are also following the better tech format, and STEM education is the base for these jobs. We… Read More »Encouraging STEM Education at Home with Hank Green
Succumbing to advertising is common, even if we don’t recognize it as such. So we brought in Kit Yarrow, a consumer phycologist to help analyze consumer manipulation and provide tips for fending it off. Links:
What if you could have skipped all the awkward social situations from school and just do the learning bit? Did you ever find the classes lasted so much longer because the teachers had to move at a pace slower to your liking? Or that they… Read More »Internet, Internet, Internet High School with Amar Kumar
