Posts by Blake Coleman
What Parents Need to Know About STEM Education Before AI Changes Everything
TL;DR FAQ: What STEM Majors Matter Most in the AI Era? Ensure Your Child Is The Human Guiding AI, Not the Human Replaced by AI If you’re a parent, you want nothing more than to protect your children and prepare them for a life where they can achieve their dreams. Where they have real opportunity.…
Read MoreBeyond the Gadgets: What CES 2026 Signals for the Future of Enterprise Technology
TL;DR FAQ: What Did CES 2026 Reveal About Enterprise Technology’s Future? CES used to be where we’d ooh and ahh over the latest 8K TV or a refrigerator that tweets. That’s shifted. This year’s show underscored the trend: consumer tech becoming enterprise infrastructure, and AI moving from our screens into the physical world. If you’re…
Read MoreLinkedIn, We Need to Talk: Why Your “Jobs on the Rise” List Misses the Mark (And Our 2026 Reality Check)
TL;DR FAQ: What Jobs Are Actually Hot in 2026 (Not 2023)? LinkedIn just released its annual “Jobs on the Rise 2026” list, highlighting the 25 fastest-growing roles in the U.S. Then you asked us a question: “How do the roles on this year’s list compare with broader labor market trends you’re observing?” Well, you opened…
Read MoreWhere Americans Moved in 2025, and What That Tells Us
TL;DR FAQ: Where Americans Moved in 2025 and Why It Matters What the U-Haul Growth Index Shows, and Why Jobs, Housing, Weather, and Quality of Life All Point the Same Way Every year, the U-Haul Growth Index gives us one of the most practical looks at domestic migration in the U.S. It is not survey…
Read MoreThe Unofficial STEM Search Group Holiday Hall of Fame
At STEM Search Group, we spend our days working with the people who quietly keep the world running in the background: technologists, engineers, manufacturing pros, life scientists, healthcare innovators, and niche startup builders who live to solve problems. So for the holidays, we’re giving the spotlight to them… kind of. Here’s a tour of the…
Read MoreSame Data, Two Headlines: How Our Experiment Proves the Yin and Yang of AI in Data Analysis and Content Creation
TL;DR FAQ: How the Same Data Creates Opposite Stories (And What That Means for AI) Psst, we quietly ran a little experiment. It was pretty simple, but revealing. We took the exact same labor market data, the same late year hiring indicators, the same reports on job openings and participation, and we wrote two very…
Read MoreThe Year Work Finds Its Footing
TL;DR FAQ: Why 2026 Will Look Different Than 2025 If 2025 was The Year Work Hit The Wall, then 2026 is shaping up to be the year American work gets back on its feet. Something shifted as the economy pushed through the last quarter of the year. The panic cooled. The data steadied. The outlook…
Read MoreThe Year Work Hit The Wall
TL;DR FAQ: Why Did the 2025 Job Market Hit a Wall? If you tried to describe the 2025 job market to someone who skipped the last few years, they would think you were making it up. Layoffs jumped, but workers stayed put. Companies said they were hiring, but roles sat open for months. Small businesses…
Read MoreWhy Your Turkey Shouldn’t Come with a Side of Machine Learning
Gather ’round, friends, because we need to talk about the culinary chaos that happens when you let AI plan your Thanksgiving feast. You might think we’re exaggerating, but these are real AI-generated recipe fails that actual humans attempted (and immediately regretted). Spoiler alert: none of them ended well. The Great AI Thanksgiving Disaster Report The…
Read MoreBlack Friday 2025: Somebody’s Watching You (And They Know Exactly What You’re About to Buy)
TL;DR FAQ: How Are Algorithms Manipulating Your Black Friday Shopping? Remember Rockwell’s 1984 hit “Somebody’s Watching Me”? That paranoid feeling he sang about isn’t paranoia anymore. It’s just your Tuesday morning coffee scroll through Instagram. As Black Friday approaches next week, you’re not just being watched. You’re being tracked by an average of 2,230 companies…
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