Yikes, and I thought Slope’s churn rate was bad! Interesting stuff, and probably explained by a plethora of free trial offers:
Butter Churn
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Another Cover Curse
We’ve seen many examples of the cover curse in recent years (Elizabeth Holmes, Samuel Bankman-Fried, etc.) but here’s a doozy. At the end of 2013, Time magazine put an even-uglier-than-normal Carl Icahn on its cover, declaring him “The Master of the Universe“. This preceded an enormous wipe-out in his stock. It took many, many years to try to climb back to that peak, but only in recent weeks has the drop resumed with turbocharged vigor. The curse persists!
The New Walter Cronkite
So henceforth I guess we’ll all get our news from The Weather Channel, or at least RNeo.
RIMM Job
The moment I saw the movie trailer for Blackberry, I knew I wanted to go see it. So I took the whole family out last night, and we watched this nerd drama about a bunch of smelly twenty-something geeks – – basically my people – – and absolutely loved it. The raspy sound of a carrier signal over a phone line almost brought a tear to my eye.
Pandering to the Latest Fad
