What a time of sizzling change we’re in.

A unprecedented arena of certain confusion, anxiety, and uncertainty — picture it like this:  it’s like 30,000 people entering the Dean Smith Center in North Carolina* with no individual tickets.  Hey, no assigned tickets, who needs a seating chart?

Either that, or it’s like the Tarheels* are trying to compete on court, making moves from the same playbook that was written over and over by coaches and strategists with an identical mass-conscious mindset (i.e., repurposing, without question or critical examination, the same time-worn, trite, ho-hum techniques … er, just because it seems COOL to do).

* hey, March Madness is in full swing, and Barry likes college basketball analogies… so he looks for an excuse to use them in any way possible!

So, how do we know this?

What makes us the self-professed analysts of the human condition?

Why do we feel we’ve got our finger on the pulse of the market?

Simply because of this:

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