Culture Council

I noticed recently that series about tech company scales and fails are becoming almost as popular as real housewives, 90-day courtships and shows involving climbing over obstacles and eating insects. Rather than demons with fangs and razor-blade hands, founders fall victim to investor demands, team mutinies, over-valuations, ego and overly-rapid …

Finding the right talent can be an exhausting process. Writing the job description, finding the best places to post it, screening resumes, conducting multiple rounds of interviews and more can eat up a lot of a company’s resources and potentially waste a lot of time. In today’s job market, speed …

If you’re not leveraging Instagram Stories for your business yet, there’s no time like the present. Instagram Stories provide a fun and creative way to engage your audience with interactive content. From adding shoppable stickers to directing users to your website with the swipe-up feature, there’s a lot you can …

Right before the pandemic hit, I remember driving into Brooklyn with my dear friend and acclaimed artist, Richie Brown, for a workshop he was hosting called “Failure Can Be Fun.” The workshop was a series of creative exercises to embrace creating art for the sake of the process, without any …

I was recently scrolling through Reels on Instagram and came across the seemingly everywhere Gary Vaynerchuk talking about something related to NFTs. I decided to stop my spiral and watch the brief clip, before then watching the full video. In the short clip synthesized for Instagram that initially caught my …

As “metaverse” becomes as ubiquitous a term as “internet” and “online,” it is important to understand what it means and how it could impact the entertainment industry. The metaverse is a space, similar to the internet, in which people will be able to engage with different types of media, such …

Last month, I attended what many call the “Super Bowl” of cannabis conventions: MJBizCon in Las Vegas. After the pandemic shut it down last year, this event, which for the last ten years has been the major platform for gathering industry leaders, returned in a way that surprised all. Over …

As more and more people turn to video as their choice format for content consumption, an increasing number of businesses are jumping on the video bandwagon as well. But savvy marketers should know that it isn’t enough to simply create video content in order to gain the attention of your …

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused work and life as we know it to change drastically, driving record levels of burnout and insomnia. According to research findings from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, more than half of respondents reported problems sleeping since the start of the pandemic. Research from Deloitte …

Unprecedented — we hear this word entirely too often. Storms are unprecedented. Elections are unprecedented. It would appear that, literally, nothing has ever been preceded. Of course, I exaggerate, but when it comes to the world of decentralized finance, we hear this word quite a bit. Every time I pick …