by Mark O'Brien | Oct 14, 2019
If you have any doubts at all that insurtech is The New Thing, The Next Big Thing, The Already Big Thing, and The Ultimate Bomb-Diggity, look no further than this post from Finextra, pubished just this past May: “Report questions value of insurtech despite... 
by Mark O'Brien | Oct 7, 2019
If you don’t believe in God — or if you harbor any doubts whatsoever that he loves us — doubt no more: “The Saddest Leafy Green: America never really liked kale”: Since about 2011, when Gwyneth Paltrow taught the world how to make kale chips on the... 
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 30, 2019
In the town in which we live — South Windsor, Connecticut — mosquitoes tested positive last week for Eastern Equine Encephalitis, otherwise know as Triple E or EEE. This is timely but not accidental, of course, coming as it does after Connecticut’s deleriously... 
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 23, 2019
Author’s Note: Every word of this story is true. No morons were hurt in the making of the story told here, except yours truly. I’m all right now. Thank you. I once had a client (who shall remain nameless), whose wife (who also shall remain nameless) worked in the... 
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 16, 2019
While reading the news feed on my iPhone in the gym the other night, even as I cranked my heart rate up to 340 on a Matrix elliptical machine, I came across a headline that damn-near blew me off the machine: “This 74-year-old woman just gave birth to twins.” The piece... 