Executive PR flack here.

Lot of hate toward PR folks these days, but only because they bizarrely get blamed for when a company really bungles things up, which almost *always* happens because of an idiot at the top who fancies himself or herself a genius.

Competent companies hire PR people whose primary skill set is…

This is one of the best pieces of analysis I’ve ever read on this topic. I used to work for the Republican Party and a conservative administration in the heart of the south, regularly meeting with consultants and campaign managers for politicians who ran in the last presidential election.

It was stunning to watch the…

It’s almost as though Trump operates on the basis of protecting himself and people in his class before anyone else. Almost just like that.

Rich people love other rich people. News at 6.

Where does freight transport fit into all this? There are massive, massive profits to be had for companies cutting labor out of their logistics chain. Won’t companies with big fleets or high freight costs be the driving force behind autonomous vehicles? I can see the luxury argument from a consumer side of things...…

People like *all* the time. And the people who enjoy it the most, for attention and notoriety, are fairly good at it, and rely on the majority of people being credulous, which they are.

I get a sense of “wrongness” for at least a day or two if I switch from contacts (which I wear almost exclusively) to glasses. Perception really is insanely fine-tuned.

Depends on where you’re talking. Department of Defense? The Pentagon? Homeland Security? Sure. But there are plenty of government organizations that are absurdly underfunded. Secondly, the private sector is a bonanza of waste - you just never hear about it. Most businesses fail. Targeting government with your ire is…

Ugh but it’s the lack of little perks like this that prevent the best and brightest from entering government and really putting effort into streamlining services and changing the culture from a service for the sake of itself to a customer experience.

Add crazy things like hiring freezes and all the best talent just…

It’s Paradise Lost, with robots. Satan, the protagonist, has a perfect moral argument when rebelling against the tyranny of God, but God wins in the end anyway because God is God. That’s all I could think of through this whole episode.

40MT would level most of Austin and if it’s windy the fallout would be pretty massive, but “destroy Texas”? Eh.

A friend of mine dragged me to a Kava bar in Berkeley and we tried as hard as we could (to the tune of $80) to get a buzz off this stuff.

First of all, it did almost nothing. The effects we felt after guzzling a good number of coconut shells full of it were barely distinguishable from our original state, and could be…

ITT Tech is the model Republicans would like to impose on K-12 education. Insert a profit motive into a public good by duplicating services at a higher cost with lower quality, and supplement profits using state and federal dollars. Butts in seats. It’s what they wanted (and got) with prisons, it’s what they want and…