Fact: There are over 32 million offices in the United States and every one of them contains a snack basket containing at least two Milky Way Minis that have been there since Halloween, 2016. Now, as we approach year three of our office's rejected treats, it got us thinking about...

Recently, we issued our first installment of the Duke Cannon Builder Series, in which we outlined the precise steps to build a barely functional and generally infuriating DMV. We’re proud to announce that permits to build almost 620 new DMVs were pulled in the weeks that followed. With the change...

Duke Cannon isn't phased by ordinary halloween scare tactics. Last time he went to a haunted house, he got fed up with all the poorly conceived power tool props covered in blood, and he spent 15 minutes lecturing the manager about what a properly tuned chainsaw is suppsed to sound...

It's a little known fact that the marketing of the Duke Cannon Brand is inspired, to a large extent, by our grandfathers. And while the grandpas of the co-founders are no longer with us, if they were here today, we can be assured of three things: 1) they’d be telling...

Recently, while receiving unsolicited advice from our neighbor, Gary, we learned that “how-to” videos are apparently a popular thing on the Internet. And while that may be true, we can’t really afford a fancy production crew; and frankly, most folks in Duke Cannon Country already know how build anything worth...

Imagine this job description: “Team members wanted to dedicate hundreds of hours of training to qualify to work in extremely dangerous conditions for zero pay.” Sure, this job may not be for everyone, but then again, not everyone has the profound work ethic, bravery, and passion to help others like...

With America’s birthday behind us, we at Duke Cannon shift our focus to “trade show season,” that magical time of year when we cross the country pitching our wares to new customers. We go all over, from Philly to Seattle, New York to Dallas, from the beloved lakes of Minnesota...

André Short teaches high school English and public speaking, but he says, “helping a student become a better person, teaching them how to navigate life, and to succeed in the world is my ultimate goal.” And he means it. André helps current and former students prepare for interviews, write resumes,...

If you check your personal email in early June, you’ll no doubt have a slew of entreaties from companies like ours claiming to have what “dad really wants” for Father’s Day. But we have to come clean. What Dad really wants, or even needs, cannot be sold or traded for...

It’s happened to all of us. You flip on the tube with the intention of watching wrestling or maybe a rerun of Knight Rider, and inadvertently you find yourself engrossed in the journey of Kurt and Debbie trying to find the perfect 3BR/2Ba colonial outside of Charleston. This black hole...