Skip to content

Trendlines

Brendon Ellis2022/03/161 min read

Left on Read

You’ve never been more digitally available to your friends, family, and colleagues. You’re just a phone call, email, text, or DM away. But should you always be available? Of ...
Start Reading
Sarah Binns2022/03/16< 1 min read

TrendSegments: Dinosaurs Finally Agree: Asteroids Exist

Want some sorta good news on climate change? The existential crisis is slowly transitioning from partisan cannon fodder to bipartisan “this crisis cannot go any farther." This is ...
Start Reading
Jordan Boeder2022/03/021 min read

Puttin' Putin in His Place

The situation in Ukraine is developing faster than macrocystis pyrifera. If that comparison is confusing, it’s okay, the whole world is a bit confusing right now. One thing is ...
Start Reading
Cory Manento2022/03/02< 1 min read

TrendSegments: The Cold, Cruel Fate of New Year’s Resolutions

Ever set up a phone call with someone and secretly hope they don’t answer? That breeze you’re feeling is millions of millennials nodding in unison. For some New Year’s ...
Start Reading
Jordan Boeder2022/03/021 min read

Rogue Rogan

Nothing like the prospect of WWIII to take your mind off the 2nd birthday of a global pandemic. Not to worry, Gradient is here to remind you that there is still a pandemic. The ...
Start Reading
Cory Manento2022/02/161 min read

An Inconvenient Tooth

Of all the day-to-day upkeep required of our insufferable human bodies, arguably no area is more high-maintenance than teeth. These primadonnas need to be brushed twice a day for ...
Start Reading
Brendon Ellis2022/02/161 min read

Masked Crusader or Mask Crusaders?

In the wake of the Omicron spike, more and more state governors are easing public health requirements—even as the CDC and White House hold firm on recommended masking ...
Start Reading
Jordan Boeder2022/02/161 min read

King of Disney Songs

If you are anything like us at Gradient, it is not enough just to enjoy something, you must rank it. Rank it in a systematic way with such fervor and detail that you become ...
Start Reading
Cory Manento2022/02/02< 1 min read

What's the Wordle?

If you’ve spent any of the last two weeks within visible range of any sort of social media, you’ve likely seen a post looking something like this:
Start Reading