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2020* ← Let’s Talk about that Big Fat Asterisk

August 25, 2020 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

I would like to suggest that we always write the year “2020” with an asterisk. Every email, every social media post, any reference to this calendar year deserves a big fat asterisk.  Go ahead, try it. It feels good to put that asterisk at the end, and offer no explanation:  2020*  It feels good because […]

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2020 C8 Corvette, a Harvard Case Study without an Ending

September 23, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

I really didn’t want to write a blog about a Corvette. As a designer, I respect the Corvette’s beginnings, back at the 1950s and 1960s when we were flying into Outer Space and flying down the roads in Space Age cars. But, I came of age in the 1990s, and by then, the Corvette didn’t […]

Filed Under: Design, Technology and Culture

For Social Networks to Survive, They Must Solve the Problems that They Created

September 18, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Screen Addiction, Social Media Addiction

It’s easy to argue that the future of social media will be a linear progression–that we will get more engrossed in social media. This is a probable outcome, but only if you ignore the problems that social media has already caused, and you assume that these problems will not get worse.

Let me highlight three problems that we can can clearly see around us today:

1) The Validation of Vanity
2) Undeniable Addiction
3) Artificial Division

Filed Under: Social Media, Technology and Culture

Lessons in Adulthood: You Don’t have to Put Up with Jargon

August 7, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

I have always hated jargon. Why do we use made-up words and silly phrases? What are we trying to prove? What’s wrong with speaking clearly? Everyone should hate these made-up words as much as me. Before I teach you how to get gangster with jargon, first lets identify 4 different kinds of jargon: Jargon that […]

Filed Under: Technology and Culture, Workplace Culture, Worky Worky

Aunt Becky Goes to Jail, Rigging the System Makes Everyone a Loser

June 20, 2019 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Earlier this year a bizarre news story broke about Hollywood celebrities bribing officials to admit their children into top universities. The most famous name attached to the scandal is Aunt Becky on “Full House,” IRL the ever-pretty actress Lori Laughlin. She and her husband Mossimo (1990s fashion icon) apparently paid their child’s way into the […]

Filed Under: Technology and Culture, Workplace Culture

The Problem of Hindsight Bias

March 7, 2018 By Matt S. Smith, MBA

Neon Blue and Pink Glasses on a Black Background

There was an irresistible TV mini-series on VH1 called “I love the 1980s” that debuted late in 2002. Over the course of ten episodes, VH1 showcased each year of the 80s and all the stuff that defined that year: popular music, fashion, trends, TV shows, movies, and occasionally something about politics. The show was so […]

Filed Under: Technology and Culture

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