by Kat Bair | Oct 2, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
Over the past several decades, neuroscientists have been gathering a lot of data about how brains work. They’ve managed to map where some specific functions like movement, speech, and visual processing seem to happen, but our understanding is still about as nuanced as...
by Kat Bair | Sep 25, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas
I used to lead a get-to-know-you game with teenagers where I asked them to tell me everything important about themselves in under a minute. They would look panicky and start quickly listing facts, identities – “I play soccer, I have a little sister, uhhh, I’m in...
by Kat Bair | Sep 17, 2025 | Big Ideas, Blog
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...
