As many pats on the back the marketing industry likes to give one another, we’re not doing very well in the “social space.” There are stacks of PowerPoint presentations containing Best Practices like stay topical and ask questions to invite … [Read more...]
How are you at taking feedback? If someone were to provide me feedback on receiving feedback I'd score low. When someone says a nice thing about me or my work I make a bad joke to deflect, but it’s pretty obvious what I’m doing and just … [Read more...]
The following exchange is far more revealing than any in-depth personality analysis will ever be. “What's your Myers-Briggs type?” “Oh, I don’t remember the exact letters or anything but it is definitely the rarest one that hardly anyone … [Read more...]
While watching The Wire for the third time, I had an embarrassing thought. (Oddly, not embarrassed to watch The Wire three times.) The thought: As an advertising creative, I am Jimmy McNulty. Take note I just used “creative” as a noun, which … [Read more...]
I don’t use that “there are two kinds of people in the world” construct because there are two kinds of people in the world: those who say “there are two kinds of people in the world” and those who do not. And I do not. Just this twice I’m … [Read more...]
So far, no one in San Francisco has indicated they hear a Texan accent on me, which is surprising given how drunk I’ve gotten. The first time my friend Andrew, who knows I’m from Texas, was driving me around Palo Alto I asked, “So is this … [Read more...]
As many pats on the back the marketing industry likes to give one another, we’re not doing very well in the “social space.” There are … [More]
I don’t use that “there are two kinds of people in the world” construct because there are two kinds of people in the world: those who … [More]
I somehow managed to make and keep dates with friends in high school and college without mobile phones. Meaning, we’d decide a place and … [More]
