Ideas I want to write about

What brands have realized is, you can create a “halo effect” around this that drives revenue for your brand. People line up to buy the limited edition stuff, and if they don’t get it, they still buy something less exclusive because they have already decided that your brand is cool and desirable and they want to advocate.

Reggie Casagrande • The evolution of Energy Marketing from Street Culture to Main Street

Magritte's work feels like permission to get weird, to surrender to fantasy, to wear fewer clothes—or no clothes at all—to experiment, flirt, be curious, and get a little unhinged. It is a time to mingle with the mythical creatures that exist in perpetual summer, unicorns and nymphs endlessly trapped in a lush dreamscape. And doesn't summer always... See more

René Magritte, Gertrude Abercrombie, and Alex Katz Feel Like Summer

All true. But that is why leaders are paid. Not to state the obvious but to take the company to tomorrow.

7 Steps to Transformation.

Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.

- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media - The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis

In Search of New Software Cultures

Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.

Caring what other people think is human and often learning and getting feedback on how one can improve is key to success so not living in other people’s minds does not mean not listening to or caring what other people say or think.

It means stopping using their metrics and their rulers of success to rule the way we live our life.

If nobody was... See more

Exercising Belief.

“We should not forget that maybe not everybody only wants a camel cashmere turtleneck,” Olivier Rousteing remarked. Beyond the cyclical nature of fashion, Rousteing’s observation captured a mash-up of trends that has been solidifying into a durable aesthetic.

The age of functional maximalism

Fashion