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The urgency to preserve these human markers is connected to a global deficit in trust that Richard Edelman, CEO, Edelman, explained has been perpetuat
“Every day we use these tools without truly owning anything ourselves. We make them stronger and make ourselves easier to do without.”
“It’s easier than ever to make work that is polished, optimised, efficient, super familiar... You need the courage to stand out in the crowd.” Rob van
“Your own individuality and your own sense of purpose and will, that’s the thing that cannot be replicated and that’s the thing that, if you cultivate
You reach out to the world, trusting it, andthen you end up in situations and meet people who surprise you and expand your sense of possibility, which
the thing is, as an adult, you get to make your own cool. you get to choose your own friends, live your own life. and let me tell you, in my life, whe
“Your own individuality and your own sense of purpose and will, that’s the thing that cannot be replicated and that’s the thing that, if you cultivate
what I believe to be true as read and experienced during my journey as a strategist in advertising ✌🏻
Out came the market research and strategy types with their hot takes, speaking on behalf of "walkers", speaking on behalf of the "inclusive running co


“Your own individuality and your own sense of purpose and will, that’s the thing that cannot be replicated and that’s the thing that, if you cultivate
As Nik Kleverov, Chief Creative Officer at Native Foreign, said: “AI has a little bit of a PR problem.” His view was that heralding AI for being fast
“Every day we use these tools without truly owning anything ourselves. We make them stronger and make ourselves easier to do without.”
“It’s easier than ever to make work that is polished, optimised, efficient, super familiar... You need the courage to stand out in the crowd.” Rob van
“Your own individuality and your own sense of purpose and will, that’s the thing that cannot be replicated and that’s the thing that, if you cultivate
Protecting Brand EquityThis is the most important.Saturation without discipline erodes authority, and publishing without restraint produces noise. Par
effectiveness now means producing work that “survives ranking, retrieval and recommendation by machines” as well as moving people – and brands with ge
What travels across all of it is distinctiveness, and a brand coherent enough to show up recognisably across a fandom it doesn’t own, a creator it doe
New rulers for measuring new units of culture
Said differently, we try to measure what we value.But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.And what can be measured tends to be...the mechanic
Perhaps being pointedly low-key on Instagram speaks to a different kind of hustle: the effort to escape the allure of the screen and build clout in ph
institutions — held shared context, conferred legitimacy. gatekeepers — decided what was credible, what mattered. shared context — the stuff everyone
Meanwhile, Takeshi Sano, President and Global CEO of dentsu, focused on how the company’s culture was intentionally created to translate innovation in
When you can pay someone else to deal with the grocery store rush, when you can buy access to a highway lane without traffic, when you can skip urgent
What disappeared along the way was not just trust, but also the micro-doses of potency that came from navigating everyday risk. Choosing a restaurant
We need to replace irony, sarcasm, and cynicism—which have contributed to our self-debasement—with softer, gentler attitudes. Cynicism is useful in cr

Movie-audience researcher Kevin Goetz said his surveys find Gen Z sees two fewer films a year on average than past generations did in their teens and
Suddenly, spending a fortune to make a fortune no longer seems like a winning formula.
Judging by the discourse on social media, teenage and twentysomething viewers want a film they can discuss and dissect. Take, for example, The Drama,
A delay builds up the perception of it
when mental activity has become synonymous with intelligence, even maturity, it’s nearly impossible to see that thinking itself might be operating as
At what point does reflection stop producing insight?
Should we be judged for the people we almost became?
the eulogy values i aspire towards, instructions on how to live life, and more
Your life moves in the direction of your dominant thoughts
When you prioritize what you yourself value, everything around you shifts, and asserting that value creates a kind of gravitational pull on the world
the sense of an “eventive” conversation that brought the two of you into a different plane and then forthly, a conversation that continued to sing aft
you never become your older wiser self, you create your older wiser self.
I grew up with the idea that you were fundamentally unattractive as soon as you hit 35. After that, not only should you not have sex because nobody’s
Now, if the adults don’t exist, you no longer have to wait to be ready to do things because there’s no moment of transcendence, no moment of permissio
plonking everything related to our debilitating attention spans here, why it is, and what that's doing to us
Nelson Cowan, a leading researcher on working memory, tells us the Magic Number is 4±1. Meaning, we can only focus our attention on three to five mean
We must strategically protect and take aim with our attention, not just because it’s the lens through which we see, but because it’s the architecture
this is not about anti-technology or anti-ambition. It is pro-focus, pro-intention, and pro-discernment in how we understand broader historical contex
to be fed into dinner clubs, radar events, and more community things i love
The question gave it a precise shape I could not have found alone, so I could finally see it more clearly.
Someone asks the right question and waits. The silence has enough room in it, so something in you loosens, as a thought finds a door. You hear yoursel
the sense of an “eventive” conversation that brought the two of you into a different plane and then forthly, a conversation that continued to sing aft
supper club vibes


The joys of yes, this. Boundaries not as keeping things out, but as holding our dreams a bit more softly. Step in to this moment that I’ve made for
Someone asks the right question and waits. The silence has enough room in it, so something in you loosens, as a thought finds a door. You hear yoursel

