Category: The day job
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Two of the ads a I remember from when I was a lad are these……. Times have changed of course. The first was catnip to a teenage club tennis player who hated the rules and the stuffy heirarchy. The second I remember just because the whole campaign was so distinctive and the line was…
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We really don't know much in the UK, we really don't. According to this poll: We think teen pregnancy is 25 times higher than it is. We think crime is going up when it's going down. We think we spend more on unemployed folks than pensioners, when it's massively the other way. We think benefit…
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I was reading the paper and came accross the story of a former down-on-her luck single mother who's written a cookbook on how to take control of your family food on just a few pounds a week. It started as a very real exercise to regain some dignity and control in her life and, as…
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Martin's post about a Jo Moran quote took me to looking at his article, about shyness, reminding me I'm reading about The Power of Quiet. Serendipity indeed. I'm enjoying it and one killer learning for me is, when you really dig into what makes a good leader, the extrovert, charisma oozing fancy pants approach works…
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If you're from the UK, you might remember a bit of a hoo hah when they decided to relax 'licensing laws' – in plain English, the legal times you can buy and drink alcohol in public. Some thought we would suddenly turn European and drink more slowly, while perhaps while sitting outside with a extra…
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I'm starting to read this. I've only read the introduction so far, but I'm already hooked. Partly because, to be honest, I'm sort of shy and introverted myself. I've managed to get by in an industry, and a culture at large, that seems to value people who can talk, rather than the people who can…
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And to make up for the self-indulgent introspection of the previous post, here's a classic Imperial Leather ad that wasn't ironic back then, but curiously, would work today for very different reasons.
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I sent this tweet out, responding to this completeley untrue statement from Razorfish (most people don't even know why the brand they buy is different, let alone want to talk to it). It got a little flurry of activity. Nothing much, mostly a few planning and marketing types talking to each other. It didn't make…
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I was reading about Macguffins in plots, for something or other, especially for cinema. "A plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist (and sometimes the antagonist) is willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to pursue, protect or control, often with little or no narrative explanation…
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"Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything" – Robert Rubin
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