Fresh metaphors, please
“Madame, all our words from loose using have lost their edge…” — Death in The Afternoon, by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway, as usual, hit the thing …
A horrifying version of us
The idea of “personal brand” seems to be resurgent. Ten years ago, when I wrote Me and My Web Shadow it was a thing – but …
Old rules no longer apply
Kraft Heinz became the deal where Warrent Buffet’s old rules for investment came unstuck. The FT reported on Monday this week: Kraft Heinz shares dived …
Synthetic media: be as afraid as you ever were
Synthetic media is a term I’d not come across before hearing about Google’s paper on fighting disinformation that was published this week. It describes those eerily …
Old book simulator
Remember when the design community had its Two Minutes Hate about vtb design? I agreed. But sometimes, fake analogue is just lovely. The Google Play …
My best reads of 2018
What did your books do for you lately? If they aren’t working hard, you should cut your losses and get new ones. That’s what I …
When innovation is a losing game
Three dots to connect… This quote came up in my Readwise feed from War, by Ian Morris about the game theory of innovation: Like fight …
The next 20 years of disruption in marketing (and everything else)
If you follow the money instead of the marketing services sector’s own narratives, change on a scale far larger than anything Google or Facebook have …
Lead with questions
The leader owns the question, the team owns the answers. That’s a thread running through several of things I have been reading and writing about …
Scrum, by Jeff Sutherland — Book report and highlights
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland is part memoir and part introductory practical guide to the Scrum …