by Mark O'Brien | Jun 23, 2020
I don’t know if there’s necessarily been an uptick in celiac disease. But since the onset of COVID-19, there’s been a markedly discernible increase in bellyaching. Contrary to the intentions of the Founding Fathers of these here United States, we want to be completely...
by Mark O'Brien | Jun 1, 2020
In the midst of (1) the global coronavirus pandemic, (2) a black man was killed in Minneapolis by a white police officer, who now stands charged with murder for taking that man’s life. Evidently, those two things weren’t enough to satisfy our appetite for...
by Mark O'Brien | May 26, 2020
On June 13, 1995, Bennett R. Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, launched a contest called, “Yo! I’m Your C.E.O.” Ben Cohen had decided to relinquish his role as CEO of the company, which was then 17 years old. Part...
by Mark O'Brien | May 18, 2020
The combination of ignorance, gullibility, imagination, and fantasy is a truly beautiful thing. Before I go any farther than that first sentence, please allow me to explain something: There’s a distinction with a high degree of clearly discernible difference...
by Mark O'Brien | May 11, 2020
That hush you hear is the vacuum in which all the palaver about digital transformation used to be. In April of 2018, I wrote the first installment in what’s turned out to be this two-part series. In it, I expressed my wonder at the phrase — digital...
