Wednesday, June 15, 2022

An Interview with Fred, the Sentient AI.

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Because of the vast reach of Ad Aged, I was able to score an interview with Fred, the world's first Sentient AI technology. The followin...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Keeping score. And your sanity.

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When I was young and playing ball--so many decades ago, I heard a quotation by a great baseball sage, either Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra, th...
Monday, June 13, 2022

The power and the glory. (Fourth-grade edition.)

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When I was in just fourth grade, my father had a major cardiac infarction and it looked for quite a long while that he would die.  I was jus...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Dude!

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Cannes is almost upon us. And like you, I'm getting a thousand emails a day like the one below. All of them from people I don't know...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

F**K conference rooms.

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Since my first agency job back in 1984 to my last agency job in 2020, I'd guess that the number of creatives as a percentage of agency s...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Today's post.

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Was inadvertently deleted because of sleep deprivation. Shit. And shit happens. Apologies.  I'll be back and rested tomorrow.
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Corte Madera, California.

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I am spending 12 hours in the San Francisco suburbs. Seeing a client and the person gracious enough to help me manage my business without ki...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Progress inflation.

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Some years ago, I was an ECD at the world's most prestigious digital agency. One day I showed up for work and it was some cosmic mischie...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Heraclitus, Rob, Geno and me.

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My good friend Rob Schwartz, Chair of TBWA New York Group, was on Gene Schellenberger's "Breaking and Entering" podcast. I lis...
Thursday, June 2, 2022

Go to Hillel.

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I'm wondering something dire. How much of the continuing gun violence in Amerika is a symbol of a much more dramatic problem. Government...