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George Tannenbaum on the future of advertising, the decline of the English Language and other frivolities. 100% jargon free. A Business Insider "Most Influential" blog.

Friday, October 15, 2021

The Great Resignation. ( A Tough One for a Friday.)

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The Great Resignation--as journalists, social scientists and economists are calling it--is here. People are leaving their jobs en masse. It...

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Three ways of writing.

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On a bright, sunny autumn day, I took a long walk along the water. My thoughts naturally turned to rain. That's not a result of my satur...

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Danger. Solipsism ahead.

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I forget who said it, if it were an ad person or a contemporary artist, but it was something to the effect that if you've seen it before...

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Curses and new business.

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When people ask me, and they do, how I manage to write something in Ad Aged five-days-a-week for roughly fifteen years, I usually invoke the...

Monday, October 11, 2021

Seeing.

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I stumble upon a lot of fragments as I wander and read my way through the world. I think a lot of us are really like birds. We build our nes...

Friday, October 8, 2021

Book 'em.

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What follows might get me rebuke. It might be regarded as retrograde or elitist or even nostalgic. Down the street from my apartment sits t...

Thursday, October 7, 2021

It's hard.

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Over the past few weeks there's seems to be a major resurgence of those stupid videos on Twitter and other social media sites where some...

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