Daniel H. Pink is the author of four provocative bestselling books about the changing world of work. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and their three children.
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“As a result of the [tax] code’s growing complexity, Americans spent a total of 7.64 billion hours in 2010 negotiating tax-related paperwork—more than twice the working time of all the elementary school teachers in the U.S.” (Source: The Week, citing Reason.com)
Lots of interesting factoids in this Wall Street Journal excerpt of Jane McGonigal‘s equally interesting book, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. Here are a few (italics added): “[Al]though a typical gamer plays for just an hour or two a day, there are now more than five [...]
Last week, the Population Reference Bureau crunched some Census data and disgorged a rather shocking statistical nugget: For the first time in U.S. history, the number of young adults (those between 25 and 34) who have never been married exceeds those who are married. A Wall Street Journal story adds some additional perspective: “The long-term [...]
“The [Florida] Marlins have spent about $396 million on player salaries from 2000 through 2010, with 873 victories and a World Series title to show. The [New York] Mets have spent about $1.212 billion on salaries in those seasons, with 878 victories and no championships. In other words, the Mets have spent about $816 million [...]
It’s Thursday morning and the press is chock-a-block with the sort of factoids that should make any American wince. For example: One in five Americans believes our President is a Muslim. Equally scary, 25 percent of Americans believe that Muslims are not patriotic Americans. Three cheers for the combo platter of ignorance and intolerance! (Somebody [...]
Haya El Nasser analyzes some just released Census data in this morning’s USA Today and offers up this stunner: Today, while 19.9% of Americans over 65 are racial minorities, 48.3% of kids under age 5 are. Now imagine the complexion of this country 40 years from now, when (most of) those older folks are gone and (most [...]
“In 1972, more boomers voted for Richard Nixon than for George McGovern. And in 2008, boomers were split evenly between Barack Obama and John McCain.” (Source: NY Times, 5.23.10)
1990 Number of U.S. births to mothers under 20: 533,000 Number of U.S. births to mothers over 35: 368,000 2008 Number of U.S. births to mothers under 20: 441,000 Number of U.S. births to mothers over 35: 603,000 Yes, according to the Pew Research Center and reported in today’s Washington Post, in the U.S. there [...]
“For the first time, marketers spent more in 2009 on Internet advertising than in magazines, according to a report from ZenithOptimedia, which said online ad spending would rapidly close ground on newspapers.” (Source: NY Times, 4/26/10)
The New York Times, in an excellent piece about why “the next big thing is small, cheap and not American,” offers this stunner about the ubiquity of cell phones across the globe: “The number of mobile subscriptions in the world is expected to pass five billion this year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a [...]
