Month: January 2023

Starbucks began by purchasing roasted beans from Peets Coffee and Teas. Peets was founded by Dutch immigrant Alfred Peets. Years later, in 1983, Howard Schulz was in Milan on business…

Each business needs to focus on how the fertility rate decline and changing demographics (older population, fewer young people) impacts their business in the next few decades. Business leaders should…

“Some 40% of software engineers in the country are born outside the US,…” Chicago Seeks Laid Off Tech Workers With H-1B Visas for Jobs – Bloomberg Bloomberg appears to have…

Interesting – it’s now cheaper to “refuel” an ICE car than an EV. Of course, gas prices will fluctuate, probably higher, come spring time: Electric vehicles more expensive to fuel…

The Guardian propaganda rag notices the fertility rate problem and proposes a socialist solution that has already been proven not to work.

This is a fascinating story – EVTOLS – which sort of take the concept of a quad copter to an extreme point for human transportation – may be so versatile,…

Am thinking we are at peak or past peak higher education due to the population demographics: A critical way employers can address hiring shortages and broaden the pool of candidates…

FB/Meta has been spending billions on a VR metaverse concept that nearly no “real people” have much interest in. Meanwhile, ChaptGPT AI-based query system snuck up on the world and…

While black coffee has basically zero calories, few people dirnk black coffee today. Instead, it is coffee drinks with dairy and sugar, often many hundreds of calories per "cup".

Hah hah – 61%, not 52%, not 67%, but 61%! “There’s a 61% chance of recession this year, economists say—what that means for your money“ (cnbc.com) What does 61% even…