Tag Archives: julie lary
Everyone’s working, but fewer careers.
Reading megabytes of articles, I tried to find a few morsels of optimism about the future of employment. The concept of having a career is being replaced by short stints at various companies or becoming a part of the gig economy, characterized by short-term contracts or freelance work.
Then I went on vacation to San Juan Island.
Consumer Purchasing Power is Key to Success
Last week, the Chinese e-commerce firm Pindoudou went public, making its founder Colin Huang the 13th wealthiest billionaire in China. Along with the company raising $1.6 billion through a U.S. IPO it achieved other milestones, which warrant a closer look. Founded in 2015, Pindoudou has managed to rise to the top of China’s highly competitive […]
Big Brother in the Workplace
After moving to Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, I engaged in the agonizing process of finding “meaningful” employment, either remotely or on the island. The latter was a pipe dream, so I applied for dozens (and dozens) of jobs that could be done from home in my bunny slippers. Like many “older” job seekers I […]
Amazon Possibly Upsetting the Apple Cart: Marketing from the Grocery Aisles
Will Amazon upset the apple carts with their purchase of Whole Foods?
Marketing from the Grocery Aisles: Technology Not Necessarily the Answer
Last weekend, I attended a neighborhood party, where the conversation devolved to local grocery stores. Living on an island with a population of less than 60,000 people with 22,306 at the Whidbey Island Naval Station, 23,204 in Oak Harbor, the island’s largest town, and the remaining 12,700 scattered across the island, there aren’t a lot […]
Art of Writing
Originally published December 28, 2017 on Quora Recently, I was contacted by an engineer in Bangalore, India who’d been reading my responses on Quora. He was impressed with my writing style. I was deeply flattered because my writing seems sophomoric, lacking depth. I cringe when I read The New Yorker, lamenting, “Why can’t I write […]
What’s Up with Whimsical Logos
I recently worked on a project that exposed me to a stack of hardware and software, which includes an open-source framework, called Hadoop. Curious, I looked up the company and was surprised to find their logo is a caricature of an elephant. A yellow elephant. Doug Cutting, the founder of Hadoop, named the company after […]
Pay-As-You-Shop Edging Towards Reality: Marketing from the Grocery Aisles
A few weeks ago, I mentioned in Pushing Pause on Technology, around 66% of people suffer from nomophobia, fear of being without a smart or cellular phone. In a relatively short period of time, mobile phones have become as important as a pacemaker, controlling the rhythm of our lives from making calls to responding to […]
Pushing Pause on Technology
Visiting various websites – whether on my PC or smart phone — is starting to feel like dystopia Los Angeles from the movie Blade Runner. Static ads are intermingled with articles. Giant banners frame the tops of pages with columns of smaller ads along both sides. If I scroll to read the rest of a […]
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