Friday, May 27, 2022

A Fish Story.

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One of today's central problems is that we believe, somehow, in perfection, infallibility. We believe in perfection and, therefore,  one...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

A downpour.

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We were the three oldest men on the team. The only men, in fact, on a team of 25. Though I was just a boy. Guillermo Sisto joined the Serape...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Leveling off.

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I was sitting on the expensive sofa in my rickety yet expensive Covid-cottage on the Gingham Coast of Connecticut. It's an area so raref...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Files.

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A friend and sometime partner sent me a note the other day. Like smart freelancers everywhere (and he's a smart freelancer) we make a ha...
Monday, May 23, 2022

A Morass for a Monday.

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I started last night, after perhaps the busiest week of my over 40-year career of typing for a living, a book by Vaclav Smil, a polymath and...
Friday, May 20, 2022

Six Accountability Questions.

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There was an article in yesterday's failing--nine million digital subscribers--New York Times about one of the world's most corrupt ...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Hearkening Back to the 1590s.

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Friends, Borderlessites, Creativeators, lend me your timesheets; I come to praise the Agency, not to bury it. The evil of accounts ere lost ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Say No to Customer Centricity.

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  Friends, Sychophants, Members of the Ad Press Who Do Nothing But Reprint Press Releases and Cannes Judges, For some time now--for years, i...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Go fractal yourself.

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Part of our job as creative people--and all people should strive to be creative, regardless of their job or title--is we have to train ourse...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Some Thoughts on Pasta.

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Iphigenia in Tauris  (1893) by Valentin Serove  I got a note the other morning.  A plaintive note. It was from a young man I don't reall...