Just because something has been recently made more convenient or more widespread, doesn’t mean that it didn’t exist before. Take for example, message boards, online forums, and blogs. We tend to assume these are mostly a product of the Internet, and even...
Yeah. Faded work pants with holes on them. Or how about embellished work boots? Se where I am going? Why is that some categories go together “well” and we have decided that they don’t with other categories? Who is going to be the one to break the...
It took me a while to get a “yearly” physical with all the pandemic stuff going on. Skipped almost two years without going to a doctor. On top of that I changed cities TWICE. So when I finally landed I had to make it happen somehow. So at the beginning of...
My better half was watching on TV a show that’s something like a European version of “Jeopardy”. The competitors were formidable. They seem to know -at least as a collective- the most obscure trivia, geographic and culture-related details. The sport...
Algorithm. Such a fancy word. It has a pretty disappointing origin. It doesn’t come from the greek “algos”, and has nothing to do with rhythm. Some trace it back to the name of a Persian mathematician. Wikipedia defines it as a “finite sequence...
Upselling is a great idea. We hear the “Do you want fries with that?” frequently. The biggest reasons is because acquiring a new customer is the hardest way to grow your sales. In contrast, when someone is already your customer, there are less obstacles to...
