Brandy Cerne

If you find yourself angrily or excitedly replying in paragraphs to someone else’s writing or creations, you should stop and ask yourself, “Is this my curiosity demanding to be unleashed?”

Human relationships have to be rediscovered and reinvented every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbour is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.

There’s lots of work on what’s called time affluence, the subjective sense that you have some free time. The simple act of giving myself a break — two to five minutes to catch my breath between tasks — makes me feel less time-famished. Studies would suggest that just changing that sense of time famine can have a disproportionate impact on well-bein... See more

Growth is

budgeting

• How to spot it: Selling - there’s a a direct call to action


• Time horizon : short (weeks)


• What you should expect from growth marketing : sales results

Brand is

investing

• How to spot it: Storytelling - there’s no direct call to action


• Time horizon : long (months, years)


• What you should expect from brand marketing : awareness, pe

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I have been thinking a lot about the continued and increasing lack of importance being placed on the idea of conversation , things over the past few years can feel so transactional. Thing is, like everyone, I love the one-way form of conversation that exists via the abundance (and abundance of forms) of content that is out there that drives me to c... See more

When people resonate with what you create, it means you’ve correctly diagnosed and articulated a collective idea. Successful writing is the arbitrage of capturing people’s ideas and communicating it to them before they are aware of it themselves.

Some Weaving is in the neighborhood. We don’t talk about it much, but most social capital is informal social capital. It’s not somebody who sets up a non-profit. It’s somebody who invites her neighbors over for dinner. It’s somebody who rents a food truck and then invites everybody on the block to come out and eat. It’s somebody who starts a whiske

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