Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Negotiation is an information-trading game. The more useful information you have, the more easily you can negotiate successfully. Imagine that you’re house-hunting. You mention to your friend Angie, “So, I saw there’s a really nice house on the market, not far from you. I’m going to look at it tomorrow.” Angie says “Is it a…
Memo: From Nick Hanauer To: My Fellow Zillionaires /.shifty-wrapper You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, co-founded and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries—from itsy-bitsy ones like the night club I started in my 20s to…
My bladder is the Murphy’s Law of organs. It’s not that it’s small, exactly; rather, it’s disagreeable; neurotic. It conspires. In cahoots with some quietly disgruntled fold of my brain, the devil bag demands emptying only when it cannot be plausibly emptied. It is as if there is a tiny agoraphobe peering out at all…
Part of the Parenting For Success series In 2014, when my interview with Dr. Tim Elmore of Growing Leaders on 7 Crippling Parenting Behaviors That Keep Children From Growing Into Leaders went viral on Forbes (6.8 million views to date), I knew we’d hit a huge nerve. Both Tim and I are not only consultants…
(Bloomberg) — The business of bundling riskier U.S. mortgages into bonds without government backing is gearing up for a comeback. Just don’t call it subprime. Hedge fund Seer Capital Management, money manager Angel Oak Capital and Sydney-based bank Macquarie Group Ltd. are among firms buying up loans to borrowers who can’t qualify for conventional mortgages…
Let me be 100% clear on this: F*ck the ad analytics industry. These companies are nothing but bunch of exploitive bullshit operations with malfunctioning code and an overly large stake in the only operation (IAB) that polices them, to let them get away with it. Why publishers ever agreed to a measure like viewability that,…
article start The online ad world is racing to make viewable ads–ads people can actually see–the standard currency for the industry. And that race is causing major pain for Web publishers while wreaking general havoc in the ad marketplace, say executives from major media companies, digital native sites and top ad agencies. Making viewable ads…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Editor’s note: Levi King is the CEO and founder of Creditera.First we went online to learn. Then we naturally started buying stuff. Smart retailers learned to target us based on our behavior. We searched and they reacted through pay-per-click and display. Then folks like Amazon used purchase history data to get smart about predicting what else…
This post originally appeared at LinkedIn. More from Kathy here. This year, my work on Forbes, Huffington Post, and LinkedIn has allowed me to connect with millions of people I never would have had the chance to without these avenues. It’s been a deeply rewarding experience on many fronts, and surprising and eye-opening on other…
Bad news for people who love absurd workout gadgets, hair-growing laser helmets, bizarre shape-altering underwear, gnomes, and generally wasting time on a long flight: SkyMall is dead. Katy Stech, bankruptcy reporter at The Wall Street Journal, tweeted this morning that the company behind the in-flight catalog has officially filed for bankruptcy. The SkyMall catalog filed…