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3 weeks ago | 
thebossmagazine.com | Damien Martin
It’s not often that you hear CEOs talk about influencing people to buy fewer things. Shawn D. Nelson, who founded Lovesac just over a quarter-century ago, knows he doesn’t talk like most CEOs, and he’s OK with that.
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2 months ago | 
thebossmagazine.com | Damien Martin
Reading Time: 4 minutesWith U.S. oil & gas production already at record levels, which source will expand more, fossil fuels or renewables? Domestic oil and gas production is at an all-time high, so an expansion based solely on fossil fuels might not offer the potential for “energy dominance” that U.S. policy seeks. Meanwhile, solar and wind power are, in most cases, cheaper than fossil fuels and growing rapidly.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
thebossmagazine.com | Damien Martin
Reading Time: 4 minutesExciting developments in the search for extraterrestrial lifeWe’ve had hints over the years, of course, if you choose to believe that things like the Roswell Incident, Area 51, and Pentagon UFO videos offer evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. But despite decades of effort, we don’t have definitive proof of another civilization beyond our planet.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
thebossmagazine.com | Damien Martin
Reading Time: 3 minutesSupply chain simulations deliver the answers to complex questionsThe best supply chain managers are always thinking about what could go wrong. They institute policies to ensure things go right, of course, but they’re always probing, trying to find the faults in their plans. With suppliers and facilities spread across the globe, there are a lot of links in most supply chains, and a lot of ways they can break.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
thebossmagazine.com | Damien Martin
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Clock of the Long Now is built to tick for 10,000 years, and to make us think about what it all meansHow many seconds are there in 10,000 years? While there is an easily calculable answer – 3.1536e+11, give or take – the question is designed to make you stop and think about the enormity of time and take a long view of humanity. That’s the impetus behind the Clock of the Long Now, a 10,000-year clock that is the main project of The Long Now Foundation.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
thebossmagazine.com | Damien Martin
Reading Time: 4 minutesBetter Health CEO Naama Stauber Breckler on improving outcomes for patients with chronic conditionsA healthy person has a thousand wishes, a sick person has only one. People with chronic conditions understand the profundity of that saying. Better Health aims to get those with chronic ostomy, urology, and diabetes conditions to their thousand wishes with new device discovery and home delivery of needed supplies, plus support and peer-to-peer connection.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
thebossmagazine.com | Damien Martin
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe top tech firms to work for in 2024A career in tech can place workers at the cutting edge of industry, working on exciting projects that will write the future of business. It’s often also a great way to make a premium salary with some enticing benefits typically not offered in other lines of work, from workations to mental health days. These are some of the top tech firms to work for in 2024.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
thebossmagazine.com | Damien Martin
Reading Time: 3 minutesWearable health tech that’s a real life-saverWearable health tech goes far beyond the smartwatch, even as we continue to marvel at the things we can do with just a flick of the wrist. Medicine is trying to keep pace with the speed of technology, as breakthroughs make diseases more manageable and provide solutions to problems that have vexed healthcare for ages.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
thebossmagazine.com | Damien Martin
Reading Time: 4 minutesAI sommeliers are helping oenophiles find the right wine for themAcross San Francisco Bay from Silicon Valley lies one of the world’s premier wine regions, and wine investing has at times been a pillar of big tech players’ portfolios. It was only a matter of time, then, until the worlds of tech and wine blended. With more than 400,000 wines on the market in the U.S., finding the perfect pairing can be an exhausting task.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
thebossmagazine.com | Damien Martin
Reading Time: 4 minutesJevons paradox observes that increased energy efficiency leads to more energy consumption. What’s the way out? In his 1865 book “The Coal Question,” English economist William Stanley Jevons noted that increased efficiency in machines that burned coal for fuel led not to a decrease in coal consumption as one might expect, but an increase. After the Watt steam engine greatly improved fuel efficiency, for example, coal consumption skyrocketed.
