Tuesday, July 31, 2012

It is what it is.

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Last night during the Olympic 100 Meter Women's Breast Stroke, there was a official's error at the start, and one American swimmer, ...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Adjusting vs. starting over.

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I once read somewhere that the great writer Umberto Eco wrote in his personal library surrounded by his collection of some 30,000 books. T...
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Where's the outrage?

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Charles Blow, the brilliant op-ed columnist for "The New York Times," had an online column yesterday about the perverting and perv...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Meeting notes.

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Media, paid and unpaid.

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One of the many amazing things about life in today's modern advertising agency is how little you may have in common with many of your co...
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I'm old-fashioned.

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At least two times a week some pretty little thing buttonholes me to tell me about a new app or website that "will change everything....
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Scheduling.

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There are many reasons people from my generation feel advertising is worse today than it used to be. One reason, I think, is overlooked by m...

Filling in the .

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A couple million years ago (or a few thousand if you're a creationist Republican presidential candidate) humans began getting rewards fo...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Writing.

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I joined Ogilvy & Mather on July 19th, 1999. I remember this in part because just three days later I was in my office--early--and I hear...
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Some New York memories.

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My parents grew up poor, in the poorest immigrant neighborhood in West Philadelphia in the poorest period of America's history, the Gr...
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