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4 days ago | 
tedbauer.medium.com | Ted Bauer
There are many myths out there about the female condition around empathy and support. If you want probably the clearest socio-cultural or political version of the idea that women don’t support other women, just look at Trump’s two national electoral victories. Both were against women (he’s actually 0–1 vs. a man), and these two wins came despite Trump being generally awful to women for years and years at this point.
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1 week ago | 
ftwtoday.6amcity.com | Elizabeth Hastings |Kate Mazade |Ted Bauer
The Charles Schwab Challenge (CSC) tees off at Colonial Country Club (3735 Country Club Cir.) next week for the 79th anniversary of the PGA tournament event. From Monday, May 19 to Sunday, May 25, will drive, chip, and putt their way to a share of the $9.5 million in prize money. The overall winner will cash in $1.71 million this year, as well as a pristine . The CSC is the longest-running PGA event that is still held at its original site.
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1 week ago | 
tedbauer.medium.com | Ted Bauer
Much moral panic. In our seeming sociocultural race these days to make sure every woman likes penis and doesn’t have multi-colored hair and wants to produce three to five kids with Larry from Analytics Lab, we have a big moral panic about women who do OnlyFans, essentially deeming it “prostitution” or “the Demise of society” or whatever else. In that you are receiving money from someone to perform some type of sexual kink on a camera, it’s a form of prostitution, semantically.
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2 weeks ago | 
tedbauer.medium.com | Ted Bauer
What’s the identity you think you need to portray — vs. your real identity? Or, blissfully, are they the same? Back in 2003, I was the senior class President of Georgetown University (I’ve fallen far, I know) and I got to speak not at commencement, but at an earlier-week event called “Convocation.” The keynote that day was Maria Shriver, so I got to meet her in the green room. She had her dad (“Sgt.
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2 weeks ago | 
tedbauer.medium.com | Ted Bauer
One model that a lot of people embrace, but are reluctant to admit they embrace. A few Sundays ago, I was sitting in a diner after church and somehow, some way, I came across a random article on my phone that was written by a kid who I was decent friends with at the end of high school. He’s now a professor. Ivy League twice over, baby! Seems to have been at University of Michigan, and is now at Georgetown.
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2 weeks ago | 
tedbauer.medium.com | Ted Bauer
We all know the time fades, and the psychological repercussions of that are vast. I have one friend who is perpetually on the verge of another baby announcement, and you can always tell when it’s coming because about six to ten weeks before, he will say something like, “(name of wife) is getting sad about the kids getting older.” And then, bam, here we go. I am not sure this is the soundest economic strategy, but I am also not in their bank accounts and investment portfolio, so I know nothing.
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2 weeks ago | 
tedbauer.medium.com | Ted Bauer
Kill it with fire. The silo effect is everywhere in business. If you’ve never heard of the concept and have some strength to lift off the rock you’ve been living under, here’s the deal: for decades (centuries?), we’ve organized business according to functional expertise. That, in turn, creates silos. Silos are essentially departments. So you’ve got marketing, sales, IT, operations, etc.
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2 weeks ago | 
tedbauer.medium.com | Ted Bauer
Most white-collar work these days is admittedly performative busy work. Can you stay ahead of it? Busywork — or “shallow work” — is very common in first-world, white-collar enterprise companies. If we’re being completely honest, some research has shown 7 in 10 employees have no idea what to do all day.
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2 weeks ago | 
tedbauer.medium.com | Ted Bauer
But hey, can you have 3–4 kids soon? Americans are, by and large, nervous wrecks. Great new article on this topic from Wharton. It’s called “How The Pursuit of Happiness Has Made Us Nervous Wrecks,” and honestly, I doubt I could agree with a headline more. I used to write a lot about happiness on here — I personally struggle with that topic, as I think we all probably do. Over time, I stopped writing as much about happiness on this blog. Why? First off: happiness is bullshit.
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2 weeks ago | 
tedbauer.medium.com | Ted Bauer
Move away from just the tech part of the narrative. Disruption. Just the sheer word can cause a 62 year-old middle manager to shuttlecock himself through a plate glass window screaming about his compound growth rate and value-driven business model. By the way, if you want to have some real fun at a bar, do this anytime sometimes mentions Uber:Friend: “I’m calling an Uber.”You: “Disruption.” (said in Batman voice.)Believe me, it’s more fun than you think. The fact is, disruption is legitimate.
