Blog | Patricia Martin

Blogging at the intersection of commerce and culture since 2005.

While researching the #MeToo phenomenon, I discovered Kasia Urbaniak, a former Dominatrix. She was once paid $64,000 for a 10-minute...

Sometime in 2017, my husband and I decided to look for a home in the woods. After months of fruitless...

After 9 years, I’m excited to announce that beginning in January, the new format for our popular Trend Report will...

Month after month, Amazon rated Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale in its top 10 most-purchased novels during 2017. Hulu’s gripping adaptation...

Our future self has desires, ambitions, and big plans for us. Now it also has an app. Have you ever...

These days, teams work in far-flung places and communicate electronically more than in person. What is the glue that holds...

On a sultry afternoon in August, I scooped up an armful of daily newspapers and trudged up to my writing...

As many of you know, my current obsession is researching how digital culture is changing humans most deeply—especially from within....

Back in 2012, I started looking into what digital culture is doing to our sense of identity. I was especially...