J. Danielle

It’s been endlessly argued that algorithms influence too much of what we watch, listen to, read, and even think. Personal taste erodes while decision-making is outsourced to the platform.

To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.

For, if one is aware that these know-hows will naturally, yes, automatically, arrange themselves into creative and productive patterns in response to human necessity and demand— that is, in the absence of governmental or any other coercive master-minding—then one will possess an absolutely essential ingredient for freedom: a faith in free people.... See more

Trend brain, as I call it, encourages us to simplify everything online into something either buyable, understandable, or moral (and therefore worthy of consumption). We may tire of trend talk, but there is a devout certainty to the speed at which they’re cycled through. There are more choices than ever today, but seemingly less authority as to what... See more

Distilling a communications strategy into a brief is an art; it should be concise, clear, consistent and creative. Indeed, BBH co-founder John Hegarty has gone so far as to describe the creative brief as “the first ad in the campaign”.

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” George Bernard Shaw

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture