This May I stopped in London while traveling to the FCSI Conference in Liverpool, and walking to Waterloo Place, I came across the latest work by Banksy; the statue of a man in a suit and tie walking forward with a flag completely covering his face. The flag does not guide man, but blinds …
Long-time company leader steps into the top role, pledging to double-down on innovation and cross-industry collaboration Jupiter, Florida — Specifi, the marketplace for global data serving the foodservice equipment and supplies industry, following the internal reorganization announced a few weeks ago, today announced the appointment of Fabio Tantaro as Chief Executive Officer for Europe …
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The BIC Pen, this humble writing instrument, is one of the most perfectly designed and ingeniously engineered products of the last century. The Bic Cristal, introduced in 1950, has become a universal tool for students, professionals, and everyday users. Its sheer simplicity, functionality, and affordability have cemented its status as a timeless design icon. …
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The phrase “offline is the new luxury” has been slowly bubbling up over the past few years and the signs of the return of an analog lifestyle are everywhere. The amount of digital clutter between productivity apps, “watch later” lists, emails, newsletters, social media messages, chats and constant bouncing across content and tools are …
Jack Lemmon’s portrayal of C.C. “Bud” Baxter in The Apartment (1960) is widely regarded as a quintessential and famously sympathetic “yes-man” character, embodying the desperate, cynical, and ultimately redemptive nature of the corporate ladder-climber. A “yes man” at work (widely, not just in the software world, but in every office, organization, or group) is someone …
If a problem is real, then why don’t people change? Good question, and quite annoying, especially when you’re convinced you have a better solution than your competitors. The answer is that change doesn’t depend solely on how strong your product is. It depends on four forces moving together. Two push forward, toward a new solution. …
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) was launched on August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m., under the ownership of Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment. The first video played on MTV was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles. Until then, music was just a matter of radio, vinyl and audio tape. Videos associated with the …
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In 2015, Adam Kay released The Big Short, a movie, inspired by real events and characters, about a group of investors who had a clear understanding of what was about to happen in the market before the outbreak of the 2007-2008 subprime mortgage financial crisis. Foresight and risk (credit default swap) allowed them to win …
The term “jumping the shark” is often used by fans to denote a specific episode of a series that changed the focus or tone of the series for the worse (coined in response to an episode from the fifth season of the American sitcom Happy Days, in which the character of Fonzie – Henry Winkler …
Magical Mystery Tour is a 1967 British made-for-television musical film written, produced, directed by, and starring the Beatles. The movie, which has no real plot, tells a series of incidents, somewhere between the absurd and the grotesque, that happen to a group of characters (including Ringo, John, Paul and George themselves) during a bus journey …
