Emily Sokolow

@emsok

Fine artist, writer & communication strategist. Moved from tech to advertising to the woods. NYC ~ Israel ~ LA.

🔎Communication strategy (integrated - brand, digital, content, messaging, SEO)

🎨Oil painting, surrealism, portraiture

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Innovating for Equity: Unlocking Value for Communities and ...

www3.weforum.org

social innovation

Insight Report by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Reaching wide audiences requires all-terrain language, and the urgency of the present moment, amplified by chronological feeds, doesn’t allow for much stylistic variety. Efficiency is key — compressing as much information as possible to the least amount of words is the ideal of all communication.

While I do agree that many areas of interaction, like... See more

nonverbal communication and

Alex Katz’s New Paintings in Venice Celebrate Grass, Water, and Clothes

Andy Battaglia artnews.com

artist inspiration

At age 96, Alex Katz is still expanding as an artist.

There are about 4,000 weeks in a lifetime. It’s a lot easier to make time for things you love when you view the world in weeks, rather than years.

Krista Tippett • Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals

how to create a meaningful life and motivation

Not everything I've wanted has manifested. This has usually been a blessing in disguise. Too many times I've believed that I wanted and needed something, but it was all for the wrong reasons. Over the years I've gained clarity and sighed with relief for not getting what I thought was surely meant for me. Often, I've not got what I wanted, only to... See more

Vex King • Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness

Things to come back to when I’m feeling meh

happiness less as a goal and more as a by-product of mastery and meaning.

Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

motivation

Tom Morton on LinkedIn: I feel like we're in a Cambrian Explosion of new businesses founded by… | 73 comments

linkedin.com

Things to come back to when I’m feeling meh

Future of work for strategists

“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”

- Brian Eno

Drone music

WORDS: Genius by David Whyte

David Whyte thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com

Things to come back to when I’m feeling meh

“To live out our genius is to live out the conversation between our particular inherited body and the body of the world from which we seem to have been made.”