Guilty of giving too many gift cards. Recipients ask for them don't use them. My wife literally has a stack.

My focus groups research:
Least used: spa, Starbucks, and restaurant gift cards (Portillos is the exception - in Chicago IYKNY)
Most treasured: credit card (AmEx)
Always used: Amazon

Beautiful!

I found this on Epsilon Theory. And, I used ChatGPT to summarize it. Is that perverse.

Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

@davenadig.bsky.social This seems like something that's right up your alley.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

Been getting a ton of spam here on Bluesky. Its awful.

Wait, no “drones” article?

@ritholtz.bsky.social

You got an impersonator.

Where’s Community Notes.

Oh. Never mind.

Missed you.

@mckonomy.bsky.social and Alberto Musalem (St Louis Fed Pres) at GIC @bloomberg.com Monetary Policy Symposium

I'm in town for the GIC's College of Central Bankers meeting, which starts that evening at the NYC Athletic Club and continues on Wednesday at Bloomberg's office.

I might be able to swing by to say "hi" for a little bit. We're talking about Célon Bar & Lounge on 40th, right?

Lake Tahoe NV is further west and Los Angeles CA