It’s a familiar story. Both the UK and the EU were trying to get a COVID vaccine program off the ground. The UK (who only …

  Here’s the thing. Creative types are pretty useless at most things, like say, changing tires, skinning a deer, playing the stock market, or making …

  When we’re moving forward on a project but not as effectively or productively as we’d like, it’s worth reconsidering our environment. Years ago, when …

  The Roman Emperor Diocletian (r. 284 to 305 AD) had a problem. The Empire had gotten too big for one Emperor to control. So he split …

Why all the marketing speak? People often ask why we write so much about marketing, advertising, and branding. There are many adjacencies from designing and …

There’s probably a better word to describe these, but we call them “Wishful Thinks”. i.e. Things we think are true for no other reason than …

It comes as a bit of a shock, at first. That it’s not that hard to make world-class stuff… Like, for example, beer. Not really. …

Every time a guy with a dream decides to open a new big-city restaurant, the old joke goes, “Good thing nobody else has thought of …

Back in 1990s Austin, Texas, the musicians called it “The Velvet Rut”. Austin was still considered “The Live Music Capital Of the World”, the rent was cheap …

Have you noticed all the buff CEOs lately? So when did the C-Suite discover bodybuilding? The thing is, none of it is random. It is …

There’s this recent New Yorker video about hardcore coffee nerds. A nerd, basically, is someone who is interested in things far more than the average person. …

  A few years after my mother died, I took my father to Las Vegas. I’d been booked for a keynote performance there and thought …