No real theme or thread this time, just random things that caught my attention the last week or so. I often hear about race to the bottom when there are businesses that just keep cutting their prices in hopes of getting customers. And often I hear that that […]
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Mobile order ahead has become a big thing. This is a bit of a long read, but it first caught my attention because of what I have been hearing about long lines in Starbucks lately and how because people can now preorder their drinks before they get to the store, […]
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Missed a week so have a few extra links this time. Something that interests me is growing plants and food, and I think for economics, sustainability, and convenience that some sort of hydro- or aqua- ponics method will be the future, especially in urban areas. There are currently a lot […]
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Something a little different this time around. A few things that made me think a bit. The other day I had a conversation with a friend about understanding or realizing how others perceive your actions. It could be considered empathy maybe. Understanding people. But further to that, how […]
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Trying to stay on top of this column. Still needing to get into a scheduled rhythm, please bear with me. I wrote about crickets in my earlier post about trying them at the FFS in Jan. Around the world, insects are a sustainable source of protein; there is […]
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Been side-tracked, but trying to get back at it. Extra-long edition this time maybe? For about 2 years I helped work a vending route for a futuristic ice cream brand franchise and that gave me a lot of insight as to how the vending industry operates, especially with […]
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The Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco is always a busy time of sensory overload.
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This time around I’ve got a little bit of a mix of food industry and tech sprinkled in. Since I had lived in Western NY for a good chunk of time (RIT, then on to some startups, and on to the big yellow box) this article caught my […]
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Trying something new, doing regular posts in the Category of Caught My Attention. With these posts, I intend to list various things, in no particular order, that caught my eye or ear recently (past week? past 2 weeks? not sure, we’ll see how it goes – maybe just whenever they […]
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Going into the new year, I felt a need to refresh the site (it really has been a while) So not going to totally start from scratch, which I really should do, but taking pieces and parts, binging over old content and then hopefully generating a whole new slew of […]