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Culture is Purpose Not Place
The big news in remote working this month was the memo Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, sent out last week mandating that all employees return to …
How to Live Through Civilizational Collapse and Still Have Nice Things
The title of this piece is basically the subtext of a growing trend reported in a recent WSJ article, “America Pulls Back From Values That …
What’s Your If-Then Loop?
Our old friend Seth Godin has a great definition of organizational culture: “People like us do things like this.” It’s simple and yet captures how …
Allergic to Mediocrity
From the 1970’s to around the financial crash of 2008, one could credibly argue that London advertising was the best in the world. Sure, the …
Ideas That Don’t Die
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered what is largely revered as the most famous speech in US History, The Gettysburg Address. “Four score and seven years …
When Small Becomes Tall
If we ask a random person in the street, what’s the point of language, we may expect to hear something like, “it allows us to …
The Psychology of Sugar Water
In 1971, Coca-Cola launched the most famous commercial in advertising history. Older folks will still remember it fondly. Younger folks might remember it being used …
What If Work Loved Us Back?
We all know at least one person. The Superfan. They aren’t just a Star Trek nerd, everybody attending their wedding came dressed as Klingons. Not …
Try not to have a good time… this is supposed to be educational
Many people born after the Millennium won’t remember much about the newspaper comic strip, “Peanuts,” featuring Good Ol’ Charlie Brown. But from its debut in 1950 …
Better to Burn out Than Fade Away
It’s that Burning Man time of the year again, when with a predictability you can set your watch to, the internet becomes flooded with the …
Simplicity is Complexity Resolved
We’re born into chaos, spend our lives seeking order, and die realizing we never had control. This is the human condition. And it’s not hard …
All leaders are politicians. Not all politicians are leaders
In June 1940, during the darkest period of WWII for the British, Winston Churchill gave his famously defiant “We shall fight them on the beaches” …
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