Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Write it Down.

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If you want to learn how your brain works, rests, sleeps, processes, you could do well by slogging through Eric R. Kandel's book, "...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Discrimination! Old! Unimproved! And Entirely Welcome!

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Once again, WPP, the holding company that of late has won more awards than seemingly any other (while it's gone from 150,000 employees i...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Tales from the Crypto.

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My sophomore-year Samuelson. If you've taken a single college course in Economics, you were probably introduced to the notion of "s...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Herman and Dylan.

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Melville died in 1891.  Almost thirty years later, the manuscript of Billy Budd was alleged to have been found  in a breadbox belonging to M...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Twelve Rules for Modern Living.

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The more times I circle the sun, the more times I see inequalities between rich and poor, the more upset the state of the world makes me.  T...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Word of the Day.

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For about as long as I've been in advertising, which if you count growing up and escaping from a suburban sump-pump financed by my fathe...
Monday, March 20, 2023

21 Things I Don't Understand About Marketing Today. And Never Will.

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1. I don't understand how I've never signed up for an email newsletter but I unsubscribe to about ten a week. 2. Why it takes a week...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Bionic Monopolies.

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  I was thinking, as I so often do, about people who have worked the system so they, in effect, have a toll-booth at each end of the bridge....
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Rise over run. And run over rise.

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The advertising industry I grew up with--the industry my Uncle Sid worked in starting 1945 and my father worked in starting 1952, was an ind...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Dig?

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For about five years, early in my career, I worked day-in and day-out for the fourth-largest bank in New York City. This was no easy job. Th...