Posts by Nick Papple
What You Need to Know Today: September 11
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Uber wants to get into the print journalism market. Starting this week in NYC, you can grab a copy of Uber’s new in-car magazine, called “Arriving Now,” from the seat-back pockets… Uber detailed what the magazine would look like in a blog post: In…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: September 10
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH What our obsession with Apple says about us. Yesterday, Apple captivated the world with its latest upgrades and product lines at the “Hey Siri” event. You can watch all the videos here. While it’s natural for people to admire well-designed products, especially powerful tools…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: September 8
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Open Houses are dead and they’re not coming back. I have a friend whose house is up for sale. When my friend asked his real estate agent if she was going to hold an open house, her answer was “No.” Here’s why: Selling a…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: September 9
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH How to throw the world’s best launch party. Apple is expected to introduce upgraded iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs at its annual fall event today (Buzzfeed). Business Insider is calling it “the biggest event Apple’s had in years.” Clearly people are excited. This got me…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: September 7
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know “Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.” – Ulysses S. Grant TECH Sneak peek inside Facebook’s virtual assistant ‘M’. Two weeks ago Facebook announced M – its virtual assistant that will compete with Apple Siri and Google Now (full story…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: September 4
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Email of the future looks promising. Like many tech-conference organizers, the people behind The Email Design Conference made sure to email attendees well ahead of time with the Twitter hashtag for the event. But when they opened that email, those going to the conference…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: September 3
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH “I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: September 2
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Do NOT waste your time on this today. You’ve heard the news: Google changed its logo. Big whoop. I like Next Draft Dave Pell’s summary best, “Google’s new logo… how they did it: Select all. Change font. Save.” Nailed it. Here’s why I don’t…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: September 1
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Twitter’s biggest problem is YOU. “Twitter’s problem is that, as a “solution,” it already works… The longer Twitter has existed, the more this essential fact has become clear. It will grow, but not spectacularly; make profits, but not spectacular ones. And it works because…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: August 31
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today TECH Why Justin Bieber made me cry. Because you have better things to do on a Sunday night then watch the VMAs, here’s what you need to know: Taylor Swift won pretty much every award, Kanye West announced he’s running for president in 2020,…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: August 28
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH The secret to making products your customers love. A big mistake a lot of experts make when they’re selling products, especially information products, is they try to package everything they know into their product and market it as added value. The truth is, if…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know Today: August 27
Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH “IF you’re going to hire an assistant, make sure they are older and more responsible than you.” The first time I heard this advice was from Ryan Holiday, who credits Ramit Sethi. With Facebook’s official announcement of M today (remember their controversial unofficial announcement?),…
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