The first to present his case seems right, until another comes forward and questions him. — Proverbs 18:16 — It happens on Wall Street. It happens in Washington. And it happens in board rooms across the country. What we’re talking about is the misreading and misuse of data. This article is directed toward online marketing decisions based on analytics. It’s self-evident that without accurate facts, you’re usually not going…

Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. — Geo. Orwell, 1984 — When future historians write about the 20th Century, it would not surprise me to find it had been nicknamed The Century of Spin. …

Two views on the pursuit of happiness. I am proposing that what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” is totally at odds with what it has come to mean today. To elaborate on how this came about is not my aim here…

“We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust and care for each other.” — Vala Alshar — For years I have referenced data from the Gallup organization for insights on various topics. What I like about Gallup Polls is that they stake a claim on getting the most diverse viewpoints from the broadest field of data. …

“If you’re not thinking about AI, you’re not thinking.” ~ Chris Meyer As Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, a number of Hollywood movies — and books like Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun — have stirred the imaginations of the wider public. All kinds of new questions have arisen that…

“One thing that’s certain, you will surely be a-hurtin’ If you throw it all away” — Bob Dylan — Cleveland baseball and football fans have had a pretty rough go of it during the past sixty years. The city’s bad luck in baseball was so legendary that a book was written about it: Terry Pluto’s The Curse of Rocky Colavito. Cleveland Browns fans haven’t fared much better. In fact…

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” — Neil Armstrong — I recently asked Google Bard a question regarding word usage and in the middle of the list of responses was a reference to the 1969 Apollo mission in which Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landed on the moon. I decided to ask the Bard a direct question about this…

We were talking about the space between us all — One evening as I mowed our yard I killed time by singing, in order, all the tracks on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles’ groundbreaking album that Rolling Stone magazine once tagged as the greatest album of all time. It’s quite striking that even after all these years…

Unveiling the Enigma: An Insider’s Perspective — The 2023 Duluth Dylan Fest was filled with memorable moments again this year. In addition to boatloads of music we were treated to two John Bushey Memorial Lectures. The first, at the beginning of the week, featured Seth Rogovoy, author of Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet. …