It turns out that Credit Karma, an online company that made its fortune by handing out personal financial advice and tax assistance to 75 million people, might want to...
Yes, the time has come for each of you ink-stained wretches to park your Prius and go drive a tractor. (Oh, bring your vodka with you.) Stumbling through the internet...
Lacking an honest mission, Facebook is heading down a perilous path. Like other tech giants, its rapid success and its hubris have led to a stunning lack of...
Earlier this month, I gave a lecture on critical thinking to an association of Hungarian economists in Targu Mures. At the end of the conversation, I was asked two...
In business and in life, it’s the small things we take for granted that generally cause our mistakes. After all, you might wonder, what’s so hard about putting a book...
The young woman looked at me like I was crazy. I had just handed her 21 lei to pay for groceries that cost 20.91 lei. She finished helping me bag the items, handed me...
I love a good list. A list of rules, a list of crimes, a list for shopping, a list of favorite books, a list of favorite lists – to-do, wish, bucket, Franz. I love them...
In case you missed it last week, the European Commission announced it wants to make it easier for companies with single shareholders (meaning small and medium-sized...
Ooops. It seems I was mistaken yesterday when I wrote that short item on Facebook about the brains behind F64’s successful PR stunt a few days ago - the one that...
From my very first experience inside an office in Romania, it was clear to me that one of the most debilitating realities in the workplace here was a lack of managers...
A Simple Conclusion Feel free to dismiss all of this. After all, I’m from the US. What do I know? Things are different here. That’s what some people tell me. Perhaps...
“A Line That Moves Is No Line At All” I hope we all agree that theoretically, somewhere, there exists a line between what editorial does and what advertising should be...
“No matter what you think, your publication is not your product.” (An introduction to journalism that even the owners can understand – I hope.) The previous blog...
“If their ideas are so good, let advertising write the stories.” When I was a journalist (and I hope it’s still this way in the US) if an advertising executive walked...
“So what’s the problem? We didn’t tell them what to write.” Why did I pick this one example, the automated insertion of an advertising link into the editorial product,...
“Why I Stopped Writing for Dilema Veche” I didn’t think journalistic standards could get much lower in Romania. I was wrong. Thanks to a combination of the mindless...
This almost reads as a parody of what we saw in 2007. A parody because, certainly, we wouldn’t let it happen again. This has to be a joke. Right? And it might even be...
I am against child abuse. You should be, too. But I’m not sure you are. Not enough anyway. And I want you to care. So to get you to care, I will soon publish photos....
“Remus Bank & Trust” I met with my Romanian friend Remus the other day. As you might know, he has been searching for a career that fits his, well, let’s say, his...
The creation of a successful logo is a mix of skill, luck, talent, intuition, and hard work. The most important rule, of course, (for almost anything) is “first, do no...