by Kat Bair | May 16, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog, Uncategorized
Hello, my name is Kat Bair, I am 31 years old and I am a Swiftie – aka a fan of American musical icon, Taylor Swift. Being raised in Nashville in the 2000s meant that I, along with millions of other tween girls, spent my adolescence belting Teardrops on My...
by Kat Bair | May 2, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
In high school, I was in color guard – not the military kind, the flag twirling kind. If you’re not from an area where this kind of thing is big, color guards perform as part of marching bands and dance and spin and throw flags, rifles, sabres, and sometimes...
by Kat Bair | Apr 18, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
In 2009, the Institute for Highway Safety staged a now-viral video where they crashed a 1959 Chevy Bel-Air into a 2009 Chevy Malibu. The point of the video, once it can be heard over the anguish of classic car enthusiasts, is that the very same accident that would...
by Kat Bair | Apr 11, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
There is an entire industry of research professionals with an obsessive eye towards whoever happens to be in the 18-25 bracket at the present moment, so they can best figure out how to sell them something. Just like 8 years ago, Time magazine ran a now much-maligned...
by Kat Bair | Mar 21, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
They say that all the technologies we’ve come to expect for free are paid for with our attention. That our focus is the valuable and finite resource we exchange for social media, email, and search engines. What makes it so valuable? The same thing that makes...
by Kat Bair | Mar 14, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
I sat in a conference last week, and the keynote speaker, author Khristi Lauren Adams, told us she wanted to open with a quick meditation. She asked us to close our eyes and, for 30 seconds, to ponder a question: What if it was all going to be ok? What if those things...
