In November of last year, Emily Hare wrote an interesting, far-ranging piece for contagious.com under the same title as this post (which I obviously borrowed from her). The relentless progression of artificial intelligence (AI) development is both fascinating and frightening. For me, fear isn't born [...]
The winter solstice has heralded a new chapter in the advertising campaign for Equinox Fitness, the worlds largest luxury fitness club chain. As reported in Advertising Age, [1] here's a video synopsis of the creative, which actually works best in the print medium and/or single image [...]
Whether your new business is Facebook or bake-your-own-granola kits, you are about to learn that the startup process is both very real-worldly—and not in the reality show sense—and very other-worldly. There are demons. There’s a bottom-feeding industry out there making it even tougher for the [...]
Last weekend I had an unsettling afternoon visit with my usually delightful Auntie E. I introduced her to you a while back (THE GRACIOUSNESS OF "NO"). She turned 94 this spring, and it is with real sadness that I must admit she is slipping. We [...]
I'm not a fan of reposting the work of others without at least trying to move the thinking behind it farther along, but earlier this month I came across an article in Advertising Age that I loved titled, "Albert Einstein Would Have Been a [...]
Reading Walter Isaacson’s best-selling authorised biography of Steve Jobs, released just after Jobs’ death in early October, 2011, was a surprise for me. Over the years, I’d had heard through the media (like everyone) of Jobs’ arrogance, but I figured he certainly earned some bragging [...]
