Laermer

It's The Bad News Bores: Celebratory Nature of News

Richard Laermer | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media


Richard Laermer

Welcome to news observation as a sport. It's based on how often and how fast we can celebrate (typically bad) news with each other, and we all want to win as often as possible.

Get Ready, Kids; Time For Musical Chairs

Richard Laermer | Posted 11.05.2008 | Business


Richard Laermer

A thousand years ago, back in 1999, zillions of young people came to cities like New York and ran around looking for jobs even though they had one waiting for them -- at work. It was so much fun to look and change and jump; to job-hop at will.