Chatter Apps and Millenial Messengers “Hey, Snapchat me the Instagram of that YikYak Tumblr so I can iMessage it to Ryan for him to Tweet,” probably. Theres a game where you have to predict how teenagers and twenty-somethings are going to communicate. If you play one way and get it right, you become rich. If […]
Archives for January 2016
Generation Jihadi 2.0
Youth Culture and Communication, but for terrorists Terrorist, Millennial, Douchebag. ISIS is fielding a junior varsity team of terrorists who are running circles around the counter terrorism professionals. One reason for their success is that Team ISIS has decided that they’ll play for smaller stakes than Team al Qaeda. No more “airplane plot,” they’re content […]
The Rise and Fall of the Tunnel Rat King
Guzmán’s Underground Underworld was his Undoing Where we’re going we don’t need roads. The one seminal innovation of el Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel is the drug tunnel. The Sinaloa cartel disrupted the traditional drug smuggling approach which bottlenecks at border crossings. In the best startup tradition, they simply ignored all the rules and regulations in their vertical and […]