making data businesses
While making cars is a dying industry in the U.S., collecting car maintenance data seems to be a quite promising business. Jiffy Lube has 2,200 North American service centers servicing about 27.5 million customers per year. Jiffy Lube does “fast lube,” i.e. quick oil changes for drive-in customers. But Jiffy Lube is also in the [...]
COB-20: bureaucrats' devotion
Bureaucrats are renowned for their dedication and tireless, unheralded devotion. No twentieth-century bureaucratic better exemplifies such devotion than James Hampton. He was a low-level staffer with the U.S. General Services Administration from 1946 to 1964. Working evenings and weekends from 1950 to his death in 1964, he created what one art historian has called “America’s [...]
Valentine's Day sunset
This sunset appeared to me as I was riding my bike home from work and thinking about the failure of my singles’ party.
regulatory requirements
“Is a company allowed to do this under the regulations?” “What does that regulation mean?” These may seem like simple questions, but in reality they may have only expensive, uncertain answers. Regulation is not necessarily like code that anyone with the appropriate capabilities can copy, interpret, and execute. In an case concerning the U.S. Environmental [...]
Tagged: law
dream broken
[video included above] I saw this beautiful woman at the Japan Culture + Hyperculture festival at the Kennedy Center. She looked at me, and then…
movement of love in communication
An insightful communication scholar wrote: in all communication, in so far as it is related to actual experience, there must be a movement of love. Those who have loved over many years may reach a point where almost all masks are gone. But never all. The lover’s plight is tied to the fact that every [...]
beautiful campaign video
In recognition of the U.S. presidential primary upcoming this Tuesday in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, here’s the best campaign video thus far: I think we can, I think we can, I think we can…
Tagged: content