It’s that time of year. You’re thinking: “how can I make this a better year than last?” Maybe you need a resolution. But no, I’ve found that New Year’s Resolutions rarely survive the first six or seven days of January. Which is why I started the My 3 Words practice back in 2006. Let me…
DetailsFirst off, the Dukes, the two $1 bet guys in Trading Places, are gone. And your children or grandchildren will find it incredulous that the ledger found in the glove compartment of Alan Alda’s car in Tower Heist was the actual, only, real copy. Gone also may be the four inch stack of paper…
DetailsA single Bitcoin was valued at $16,878 this week. But, far from me to make a conclusion based on that. Michael Cave, Senior Data Analyst at Darwin Ecosystem and someone who lives in this world, shares a prediction [with my interjections]: “Personally, I believe that cryptocurrency as an actual investment market is well overgrown and…
DetailsAt the end of the day, it may be like your car—you don’t have to know how it works to drive it. But just in case, here are a bunch of articles I found helpful when I was trying to explain it in this post. Many out there give definitions where you need a dictionary…
DetailsFor anyone who knows me, reading this title you are probably thinking “what the H.E-double hockey sticks…your husband is from Brazil!” Yes, but historically US State Department programs, such is this one coordinated locally through World Chicago, and in particular one’s from Partners of the Americas, (which focuses on exchanges just in this hemisphere), have been…
DetailsI love, love, love, Thanksgiving. So when World Chicago said they needed Thanksgiving hosts for a “multicultural group,” we were in. World Chicago “promotes citizen diplomacy.” Essentially, World Chicago makes the local arrangements for travelers who are on professional and educational exchanges (“to advance national security, economic development and social justice”) funded by the US…
DetailsTom was a visionary. The last time I saw Tom was at 1871, the big Tech Center downtown. He was going through a rough patch but even so he was telling me about how he was working with churches on the south side of Chicago on things like 3D printers and how they could be…
DetailsWe got sandwiches from New York Bagel & Bialy in Skokie the other day and I said to my husband, “this must be the best lox and cream cheese sandwich you’ve had,” referring to the 3” inch high concoction he was holding. “The best one was with May,” he responded—the May in question being the…
DetailsTwo ads recently debuted using editing to have people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds morph into one another in succession. One, from Dove, featured a black woman who removes her shirt and becomes a white woman who removes her shirt and becomes a brown woman. The ad, part of the “All Skin Deserves Gentleness”…
Details“I really have to get on the bandwagon!” is a common lament for business owners, artists or entrepreneurs who are “non-digital natives”–people of an age who didn’t grow up with technology but now need to rely on it to continue to evolve their business. And even when you are ready to dive in with social…
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