To really beat someone, or something, one must respect and understand that person or organization, even if they dislike or loathe them. That’s ancient wisdom — “know thy enemy” — that not only applies to martial situations, but to the biggest challenges in life. OK,...
Someone needs to write an epic poem about the paper check. Love it or hate it (and we all say we hate it even though many of us still use it, especially for B2B payments), the payment form not only endures in these supposedly digital...
Cake: It’s that thing one can supposedly have as long as they don’t take a fork (or their fingers) and try to put some into their mouth. Otherwise, the universe will explode — or something like that. At least, that is what the great philosophers of contradiction,...
Maybe Isaac Newton — the hopelessly hopeful alchemist who came up with some solid rules of physics — was a genius of business and even B2B payments, too. After all, one of his main rules concerns the tendency for objects (by which he means everything...
February 21, 2019
Everyone knows the ritual, one that combines solid numbers and a sense of hope: the reimbursement of mileage driven by workers in service of their employers. The task traditionally involves the official IRS mileage reimbursement rate (which, for 2019, stands at $0.58 per mile, up $0.035 from last year), along with the knowledge that some […]
October 19, 2018
To really beat someone, or something, one must respect and understand that person or organization, even if they dislike or loathe them. That’s ancient wisdom — “know thy enemy” —...
October 03, 2018
Someone needs to write an epic poem about the paper check. Love it or hate it (and we all say we hate it even though many of us still use...
October 01, 2018
Cake: It’s that thing one can supposedly have as long as they don’t take a fork (or their fingers) and try to put some into their mouth. Otherwise, the universe will...
February 02, 2018
What you don’t know can, indeed, hurt you — especially when it comes to chargeback liability. The waters of transaction disputes are challenging even today, but as of April 15, 2018, things will get a little more challenging, at least for a while. That’s the date that Visa’s new rules on chargebacks will take effect. Visa’s […]
