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It’s a reasonable bet that an NFL legend whose career earnings have been estimated at $55.5 million is a guy who doesn’t need to work anymore. Nonetheless, hall-of-fame quarterback Troy Aikman did find another gig: Since his 2001 retirement, he’s been a very popular on-air analyst for Fox Sports. Now comes news that Aikman is…Read More

The problem with becoming defensive is that our internal narrative gets in the way of expressing what’s actually going on. Because we’re imagining all the blame and shame and scorn that the other person may or may not be feeling toward us, we bring those feelings into our words and actions, and end up making a mess.

And the problem with being offensive is that the person we’re offending can no longer hear what we’re saying.

Communication lives between the two. When we can describe the actual, the same way we might talk about the weather. Here is what is. Simply that.

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Last night, Apple became the first US company to breach the mark of a $3 trillion market cap. The party lasted only a brief while, as the firm’s stock brought the valuation down to $2.99 trillion within a few hours. Over the years, the iPhone has been the major force behind the Cupertino-based tech giant’s bottom line. More recently, its services business has also become an important contributor. Last quarter, services generated $18.2 billion in revenue for Apple, with 25.6% year-on-year growth. Last week, Daniel Ives, MD of investment firm Wedbush, said in an investor note that Apple’s services business…

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Early-stage founders often struggle with prioritizing and structuring their brand work – and admittedly, the feat can seem pretty overwhelming if you’re building your entire visual identity from scratch. Color choices, fonts, and imagery can seem like petty details when you’re simultaneously building your product, fundraising, and headhunting for key roles, but overlooking your brand can be an expensive mistake for a startup with only one shot to woo a potential investor or customer. At the same time, no matter what your investor, board member, or brand agency tells you, early-stage startups don’t need to have their ducks in a…

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For many years, Samsung divided its phone lineup with the S-Series in the first half of the year and the Note series in the second half. But after the company hinted it was abandoning the Note series to sell more folding phones in 2021, the truth is not so tragic for Note fans: Samsung is basically turning the Galaxy Ultra into the new Note, as evidenced by the latest batch of leaks. We already saw the first indications of this last year, as the S21 Ultra supported a newfangled external S-Pen. But frankly, the fact that the pen was external…

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A pair of researchers from the University of Montreal today published a pre-print research paper on creating “more intelligent artificial agents” by imitating the human brain. We’ve heard that one before, but this time’s a little different. The big idea here is all about giving artificial intelligence agents more agency. According to the researchers: Despite the progress made in social neuroscience and in developmental psychology, only in the last decade, serious efforts have started focusing on the neural mechanisms of social interaction, which were seen as the “dark matter” of social neuroscience. Basically, there’s something other than just algorithms and…

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Three days into the new year, we already have our first brand mea culpa of 2022. Pabst Brewing Company apologized today for a string of crude tweets and replies taking aim at the annual Dry January teetotaler movement. The hubbub started early this morning with an initial tweet on Pabst Blue Ribbon’s verified account that…Read More

At this point in the cannabis timeline, it’s simpler to count the number of U.S. states that haven’t legalized the plant–it’s 14, for the record–than to tally those that allow medical sales, recreational use or both. And with that broad reach came a record-shattering green rush over the past two years, spurred by the Covid-19…Read More

After going virtual last year, the largest technology trade show in North America is making an in-person comeback. The 2022 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show is set to take place in Las Vegas from Jan. 5-7, ending a day earlier than originally planned. As the world continues to navigate the ongoing pandemic, the show…Read More