by Kat Bair | Sep 17, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
This week I read the story of an absurd year-long battle over whether Pepsi or Coca-cola would have the first soda in space. In what sounds more like a Veep plotline than coherent corporate strategy, the two companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars designing...
by Kat Bair | Sep 11, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
I’ve been thinking a lot about the second season of Shiny Happy People. The documentary series spent its first season on the Duggar family (of “19 Kids and Counting” fame) and the larger cultural and religious infrastructure around their particular...
by Kat Bair | Sep 4, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas, Client Stories
I was talking to a client from a small denominational tradition the other day about how to best support congregations struggling to keep up with their needed fundraising. She mentioned, in particular, that these congregations were sometimes extremely burdened by their...
by Kat Bair | Aug 27, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
A year ago, I read this book called Fair Play. The book was written for women trying to figure out how to manage the division of labor inside the household. The basic premise is that, in heterosexual couples, women tend to carry the lion’s share of domestic...
by Kat Bair | Aug 20, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
In middle school, I learned the basics of thermodynamics via a little diagram of a steam engine. Arrows (red for hot, or blue for cold) showing water moving from one place to another, and simple equations on the sides, and we were meant to help us grasp basics of...
by Kat Bair | Aug 1, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Recent archaeological discoveries are beginning to suggest a rather inauspicious beginning for one of humankind’s most crucial innovations: the wheel. According to most recent evidence, the wheel wasn’t invented all at once, but gradually emerged among rural...
