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11/30/2023
11 : 24
The Biggest Tech Innovations of 2024, Sports Journalism Scandals and Why Ancient Statues Have Broken Noses | Non-Obvious Insights #396
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, Good morning from Las Vegas! I'm finishing up a quick visit here for an event and looking out my window at the new
11/24/2023
7 : 44
15 Non-Obvious Holiday Gifts To Buy This Black Friday | Non-Obvious Insights #395
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, If you are in the US and celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you had a meaningful day yesterday with family and friends. Today
11/17/2023
2 : 54
Being Too Beautiful, Japan's Luxury Beer, Obnoxious Airline Passengers and Why Studios Kill Films | Non-Obvious Insights #394
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, In this week's newsletter we start with a look at Apple's best apps of the year that are making a "cultural
11/9/2023
11 : 24
Wooden Satellites, Flawed Best Seller Lists and Why People Don't Vote Based On Ethnicity | Non-Obvious Insights #393
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, This week's newsletter will take you from the pages of the Wall Street Journal to outer space. Could a single change to
11/2/2023
10 : 24
Doritos Creates AI To Silence Crunching Sounds, the Top 100 Books Of 2023 and a Camera That Fights Deepfakes | Non-Obvious Insights #392
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, Greetings from San Antonio! I am here for the Inc 5000 Conference and the energy of all these entrepreneurs celebrating
10/26/2023
10 : 24
The Credit Card Showdown, Flushless Toilets and Why It's Normal To Believe In The Paranormal | Non-Obvious Insights #391
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, I'm spending most of this week reading books and debating selections as we narrow the field for our big announcement of
10/19/2023
15 : 44
The Wiggles Movie, Death of Self-Checkout and Pathetic Branding of the World's Hottest Pepper | Non-Obvious Insights #390
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, Happy almost Friday from here in Sydney! I've been here this week as part of the first SXSW show outside the US and
10/5/2023
10 : 24
Fat Bear Week, 7 Tips for A.I. Marketing and the Dangers of Plastic Cutting Boards | Non-Obvious Insights #388
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, Good morning from sunny Atlanta! I was here filming a LIVE session for the Mailchimp team yesterday featuring my 7 tips for
9/28/2023
10 : 24
The Man Who Could Live Forever, the Year's Best Data Visualizations and Why I Am #nothumbled | Non-Obvious Insights #387
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, This week on a layover in San Francisco I found out Henry and I had won another book award for The Future Normal. As I
9/21/2023
10 : 24
Licking Rocks, Shaming Marketing Agencies, Cocaine Hippos and Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants | Non-Obvious Insights #386
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, This week's edition of the newsletter starts out with a deep dive into the slightly ridiculous but very non-obvious
9/17/2023
13 : 14
The Myth of Car Ownership, a 0% Loan Experiment and Why PPT Is The Best Software Ever Made | Non-Obvious Insights #385
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, Welcome to all my new friends from New Orleans who I met at the National Restaurant Association's The Table event this
9/7/2023
10 : 24
Poetry In Parks, Veggie Palm Scanner, UFO Videos and the World's Cheapest Solution To Global Warming | Non-Obvious Insights #384
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, Poetry in national parks. Silent walking goes viral. Declassified UFO videos. The "brotox" boom in men's
8/31/2023
10 : 24
Abolishing Wilderness, Underwear Without Pants and the Death of Bathtubs | Non-Obvious Insights #383
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, What lessons about our identity can we learn from Prada's new $650 underwear? Could the ideal solution for animal
8/24/2023
10 : 24
Lazy Girl Jobs, the Future of Accessibility and the Team That Lost 17,000 Times | Non-Obvious Insights #382
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, I am a few steps away from the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles this morning as I put the finishing touches on this
8/17/2023
10 : 24
Wearable Insects, Travel Guide Scams, Image Cloaking and Why Japan Is Hiring the Elderly | Non-Obvious Insights #381
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, I am back this week after an adventurous twelve day journey through Italy and Croatia with a quick stopover in Copenhagen.
7/27/2023
10 : 24
Why Paris Travelers Faint From Culture Shock, a Weight Loss Culture War and the Horrors of Deep Fake Love | Non-Obvious Insights #380
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, Soccer, love, weight loss, tourism, retail and music. You'll find all of them in the stories this week as we explore
7/20/2023
10 : 24
World's Most Powerful Passport, Influencer Marketing Gone Horribly Wrong and Cost of Unnecessary Meetings | Non-Obvious Insights #379
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, Welcome to all my new subscribers from my events these past few weeks! This is the first of my Thursday email newsletters
7/16/2023
14 : 14
Crocs Engagement Ring, Kinetic Dancing Floors and a Scary Video All Parents Should Watch | Non-Obvious Insights #378
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, Would you put your engagement ring on a pair of Crocs? What if one of the most fundamental assumptions about early hunter-
7/6/2023
10 : 24
Pride In Being American Lowest Ever, AI May Spark A New Religion and the Cost of a Human Head | Non-Obvious Insights #377
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, During a week when several countries celebrate their independence days (congrats America, Canada, Rwanda, Somali, Hong Kong
6/29/2023
10 : 24
Hackers Discover Tesla's "Elon Mode," Student Eats $120k Banana and Nokia Reinvents the Mobile | Non-Obvious Insights #376
The most interesting and non-obvious stories of the week. Dear Newsletterest, Should a banana duct taped to a wall be considered art work $120k? What about the kid who ate it? How is "review