To buy one of each item in President Donald Trump’s company’s online storefront today would cost you nearly six figures. The good news is you’ll qualify for free shipping for an order over $125. The Trump Store sells a whole skincare line plus branded golf gear, robes, blankets, glassware, and more. There’s the classic red “Make America Great Again” hats for $47, an $80 Trump Home jasmine room spray and diffuser set, and Trump-branded coffee pods that sell for $18 for a 12-pack. All told, there are 1,492 total items for sale at the Trump Store that together cost $91,145.12,…
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In 2020, as people began to realize they would be spending significantly more time at home than they had planned in January, a lot of people splurged on a new TV. Approximately 315.6 million new sets found their way to households around the world that year, a 6% increase from the year before. Those sets still have some life in them. The average TV will run for 10 years or more without issue, but many homeowners are starting to feel like their sets are getting a bit long in the tooth. And over the next year or two, the industry…
Did you know that December is spelled with an X? Neither did we—until one influencer’s viral video showed the pitfalls of relying on AI for answers. AI is growing less and less popular by the day. A recent Gallup survey found a 14% decrease in excitement among Gen Z about AI since 2025, with 48% of working Gen Zers saying that using artificial intelligence in the workplace isn’t worth the risk. As anti-AI sentiment grows, anti-AI creators are finding a new niche. That includes Husk, an influencer whose videos showing ChatGPT’s frequent mistakes have gone viral over and over again.…
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” That’s a quote from Apple’s famous “Think Different” advertising campaign, which ran from 1997 to 2002. It embodies the bullish idealism that has long permeated the technology industry. Tech leaders espouse this thinking in pitch decks, on earnings calls, and in the mission statements defining their companies. Look no further than OpenAI’s introductory post from 2015: “Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole” You could argue that—in addition to…
A silent productivity killer is operating in every enterprise without detection, causing harm unnoticed: the 100-page slide deck, which I call the “Frankendeck.” It is a bloated, decentralized collection of charts, bullet points, and appendices emailed to the C-suite 48 hours before a critical meeting. As a presentation strategist working with Fortune 500s and scaling startups to improve executive communication, I see this pattern everywhere. Corporate teams tirelessly gather data, create graphs, charts, and tables, only to paste them into slides and call it a board meeting deck. But we confuse “data-dumping” with “strategic storytelling.” In doing so, we impose…
The latest data confirms what has quietly been building for years, and now it is no longer anecdotal but systemic, as roughly 64% of parents with Gen Z children aged 18 to 28 say their adult kids still rely on them financially for housing, money, or basic support, while 56% of those parents admit that this arrangement is putting strain on their own finances, which means we are looking at a generational shift where adulthood itself is being delayed on a scale not seen in modern times. This is being explained away as an economic problem, with references to high…
At SXSW this year, artificial intelligence was everywhere. Every panel. Every hallway conversation. Every prediction about the future of work seemed to revolve around the same question: How do we keep up? But the moment that stayed with me wasn’t about AI at all; it was reconnecting with the world of Jack Johnson. He took the stage not just as a “musician,” but as something far more compelling: a fully integrated human being. Before his success in music, Johnson was a professional surfer, then a filmmaker, and then a globally recognized musician. And in his recent documentary SURFILMUSIC, what becomes…
Visa has just unveiled a new suite of artificial intelligence tools designed to overhaul how credit card disputes are handled, and once again this is being presented as a simple evolution toward efficiency and improved customer experience, yet when you step back and examine the scale of what is unfolding, this is clearly part of a much broader structural shift within the financial system toward centralization and automation. The numbers alone should make that obvious, with Visa processing over 106 million disputes globally in 2025, representing a 35% increase since 2019, and that type of exponential growth is not something…
How many new oil wells did you drill this year? Did your oil and gas reserves deplete? Do you operate your pipelines through a master limited partnership? Those questions likely don’t mean anything to the average person. They’re only relevant to Big Oil companies—which can get tax breaks for such actions. The questions appear on “Trumpo Tax,” a satire website (a nod to Intuit’s tax-preparation software TurboTax) created by United to End Polluter Handouts (UTEPH), a coalition of climate groups that highlights how Americans’ tax dollars fund oil and gas corporations. On Tax Day, (Wednesday, April 15), a “Trumpo Tax”…
The fall of former direct-to-consumer darling Allbirds has taken a very weird turn. Allbirds, the sustainable shoemaker that caught fire with the Silicon Valley set about a decade ago, will start selling silicon itself. The company said in a press release that it will transform itself into a business focused on leasing GPUs—the powerful graphics processing unit chips underpinning the AI boom that are in short supply and high demand, much to the chagrin of gamers and tech CEOs. The husk of the shoe company that once was will “pivot its business to AI compute infrastructure, with a long-term vision…