The Apple Podcast App is Changing According to sources, confirmed by PodNews, the release of iOS 14.5 will have big changes for the entire Apple Podcast ecosystem. The first being changing the word “subscribe” on the app to “follow” because subscribe will be used for paid podcast subscriptions. More on paid subscriptions in a minute. They…

Lately, people have been asking me the same question over and over. What the heck is Clubhouse? TLDR; If you’re already on Clubhouse, let’s connect @mattrouse If you’re looking for it in the App Store, this is what it looks like. …

It’s true. Carlo M. Cipolla was an Italian economic historian. (Aug 15, 1922 — Sep 5, 2000) He is famous for writing, “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.” Learn them. Know them. Understand them deeply and your life will become much easier. These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of…

I love LinkedIn. I like the videos, links, articles, and especially the relationships I’m making on there. It’s great. But there are a few things missing… Number 1 — Filter by “Not Going To Automatically Drop Me Into a Worthless Drip Campaign of Bullshit” LinkedIn gives me recommendations of connections. I see that smug, over-developed cheap headshot, and the title that reads something like, “Bob Jones — I…

There’s a song by a band called Fountains of Wayne, who are fabulous storytellers, which is called “Richie And Ruben.” It’s about these two friends of the narrator who keep opening businesses saying, “we’ve got it made” but the narrator “still hasn’t gotten paid.” When they talk about a bar…

I’ve been talking to community outreach organizations, business groups, and local property management companies in Portland, Oregon, and the metro area. Things are better here than some larger cities, but it’s still shaping into an economic, health, and social disaster. I think we can all agree that 5900 houseless people…

Facebook has revamped Hashtags into something that a few people might actually use sometimes. It appears as recently as July 1st, 2020, Facebook has started pushing the use of Hashtags in some profiles and business pages. Some have reported seeing pop-up notifications on Facebook asking them if they would like…

“Stop being a hypocrite,” I told him. He was losing money in his business and he didn’t know anyone who was sick so he started going after everyone he could find and spreading videos on social media that he thought the coronavirus was a Hoax. “Believe what you want to…