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9/30/2021 10:14:28 AM
Numlock News: September 30, 2021 • James Bond, Fat Bears, Baseball Cards
By Walt Hickey PFF Pro Football Focus, a data and analytics firm that supplies to all 32 teams and about 95 percent of the Power Five college programs, got a $50 million investment in exchange for a
4/8/2022 10:14:27 AM
Numlock News: April 8, 2022 • Manga, Antarctica, Fear
By Walt Hickey Internet The Zimbabwe telecom business is dominated by two companies, Econet and NetOne, which have a combined 94.5 percent share of the market. Econet charges 2000 Zimbabwean dollars (
4/22/2022 6:04:28 AM
On Icons and Justice
VOL 4 NO 17: Sherry Kappel on the role of an icon and the purpose they do—or don't—fulfill. What are their qualifications? When do they do more harm than good? And other related topics OHF WEEKLY
5/27/2022 10:54:52 AM
How Corporate America’s Favorite Legal Trick Is Backfiring
For decades, companies have used arbitration agreements to shirk responsibilities to their customers and employees — but now the tables have turned. How Corporate America's Favorite Legal Trick Is
7/19/2022 10:14:32 AM
Numlock News: July 19, 2022 • Superyachts, T-Pop, Super Spikes
By Walt Hickey Windsor The British Royal Family has managed to keep a precise accounting of their assets under wraps, utilizing a carve-out in British law exempting them from the standard requirement
7/22/2022 6:04:28 AM
The Secret Lives of Black Victims
VOLUME 4 NUMBER 30: Sherry Kappel on the people behind the headlines and hashtags; Jesse Wilson on the elusiveness of racial equality; and William Spivey on the difficulty in acknowledging systemic
8/24/2022 10:14:28 AM
Numlock News: August 24, 2022 • Avocados, Thieves, Revenants
By Walt Hickey The Return Every civilization, every culture, has the myth of the revenant, the dead thing that returns by one means or another to a state resembling the living. In ancient Norway they
10/21/2022 4:04:26 PM
☕️ Burrito tech
Why Chipotle created a VC arm. October 21, 2022 Emerging Tech Brew Happy Friday. Tesla reported earnings on Wednesday, and despite hitting a record-high revenue figure, the company's shares took a
10/20/2022 10:04:28 AM
Numlock News: October 20, 2022 • Soapocalypse, Wrecks, Korean
By Walt Hickey Gummies Gatorade, the sports drink company, is diving into the gummy vitamin business, now rolling out packages of Gatorade Gummies for $25.99 each. The global market for gummies as it
10/17/2022 5:24:28 PM
☕ Robots in disguise
Carhartt automates fulfillment. October 17, 2022 Retail Brew TOGETHER WITH Attest Happy Monday. Sure, your dogs are your buddies, but are they your drinking buddies? Here's some good news for
10/27/2022 2:14:31 PM
🦠 Microbial astronauts
Plus: DC has always needed someone like James Gunn.
12/20/2022 11:14:27 AM
Numlock News: December 20, 2022 • Dog Names, Epic Games, Trans-Siberian Orchestra
By Walt Hickey Trans-Siberian Orchestra The hottest holiday ticket for the past several years has been the Trans-Siberian Orchestra tour, which runs a few weeks of the year in the lead-up to the
12/16/2022 9:14:41 AM
Why media companies struggle to act like tech companies
Quality journalism doesn't scale like tech; in fact, that may be one of its greatest features.
1/24/2023 11:14:28 AM
Numlock News: January 24, 2023 • Puppies, Podcasts, Pickleball
By Walt Hickey Road The big ice roads in Alaska — the ones that have television shows — are in service to the oil extraction and mining industries predominantly, but networks of resident-supported ice
1/30/2023 11:14:27 AM
Numlock News: January 30, 2023 • Fish, Whopper, Caesium
By Walt Hickey Fish Plays In the great spirit of Twitch Plays Pokémon, several channels that involve pseudorandom attempts to play video games have sprung up and thrived, one of which was operated by a
2/3/2023 11:04:27 AM
Numlock News: February 3, 2023 • Wrestling, Linda Ronstadt, Fake Diplomas
By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! AEW There's a new fresh babyface in wrestling in the form of the All-Elite Wrestling, an upstart competitor to the WWE juggernaut staked by the scion of
1/4/2023 3:04:27 PM
Measuring an engineering organization. @ Irrational Exuberance
Hi folks, This is the weekly digest for my blog, Irrational Exuberance. Reach out with thoughts on Twitter at @lethain, or reply to this email. Posts from this week: - Measuring an engineering
2/8/2023 7:14:28 PM
Feb. 8 - Adidas unveils first new label in 50 years | Alo Yoga opens virtual store
Alo Yoga unveils virtual store with beauty, workout content; Under Armour turns to athleisure for growth; To rescue Vans, VF aims to replicate success at The North Face; Belk opens first outlet store
2/17/2023 8:15:14 AM
Writing an engineering strategy. @ Irrational Exuberance
Hi folks, This is the weekly digest for my blog, Irrational Exuberance. Reach out with thoughts on Twitter at @lethain, or reply to this email. Posts from this week: - Writing an engineering strategy.