A collection of thoughts, insights, and everything you never knew you needed to know.
Tariffs & The Automotive Industry
Tariffs & The Automotive Industry: What we know & how to navigate it. As told by an automotive professional. In Q4 of 2024, I don’t think anyone could have predicted what the automotive industry had coming in Q2 2025, but here we are again, scratching our heads and wondering if this will be similar to…
The Legend of Orkut: 2004-2014
Let’s take a moment to applaud the legendary social media site, Orkut, for all they stand for and their great success. Haven’t heard of them? Yeah, me neither. Let’s start from scratch…. Meet Orkut Buyukkokten, a Turkish software engineer who we can credit for the decade-long success of the Google-backed social media site, Orkut. Orkut…
Weixin: Revolutionary, but wait… what about the Chinese Gov’t?
As an American consumer, it seems that all revolutionary ideas are born in Silicon Valley or China. Weixin, (pronounced way-shin), is no exception. They’re a Chinese app that has hit the nail on the head for giving consumers what they want: A one-stop shop for virtually everything… virtually. Let’s rewind to the early 2000’s when…
Rural Thymes 