MindTribe has an orb in the office that we need to stop watching. The orb glows red when the NASDAQ drops, glows green when it rises, and pulses when the index’s movement exceeds 4%. Lately, its perpetually pulsing red light has been making me feel as if a hooker moved in to the next row of cubicles. Ironically, the orb can’t be reconfigured to monitor something more optimistic than tech stocks because—in a true sign of the times—the Web site that supports it is now defunct.
The Orb Glows Red When the Market Is Down – Lately, We’ve Needed a
Distraction from Its Bad News (photo credit: MindTribe)