*We recently hit two big milestones. This is the 150th weekly edition of the newsletter. Also, we won a “Best Travel Newsletter” GOLD award earlier from the North American Travel Journalists ...

I’m currently a marketing consultant, and I help lots of early stage companies with their branding, product positioning, and ...

If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t! by Elise Parsley Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2015, 40 ...

Kickstarter uses a clever financing model where every backer’s money is returned if the full funding goal is not met. But this innovation is only one of many dozens of possible funding models, and ...

While at Make: for many years, I had the pleasure of working with and getting to know Shawn Thorsson, author of Make: Props and Costume Armor. Shawn was one of the first serious amateur prop builders ...

One of me besties, Peter Bebergal, sent me a link to this 1980 guide to clamps from the Cincinnati Tool Company. Basic stuff, but a fun browse for anyone who loves tools, tool history, and vintage ...

Who is Feeling Happiest These Days? The latest worldwide survey on happiness is out and if you thought the mood wasn’t so hot in the USA or UK, you were right. The countries with high taxes, strong ...

A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and ...

“Sentience is neither intelligence nor brain size. We should be aware of the possibility of decouplings between intelligence, ...