J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
This is the very bland and very basic and college-freshman level thing I’ve been thinking about: what is luxury?
Laurel Pantin • Luxury and Pleasure vs The Spiral
questions worth thinking about and taste log
Per Laurel, it’s “doing whatever I want, when I want, in the precise way I want to do it”.
Dogma - “a belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform or change” - and distance from the reality of the consumer - are held up by Huntington as the two biggest sins a strategist can commit. Amen.
Ideas We Love: Feral Strategy
What happens when you give a load of engineers a brief? I always ask the question: What would’ve happened if you hadn’t given the brief for High Speed 2 to a load of engineering firms who immediately focused on speed, time, distance, capacity? What if you’d given the brief to Disney instead?
They would’ve said, “First of all, we’re going to rewrite... See more
They would’ve said, “First of all, we’re going to rewrite... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
a good point about how asking the right questions at the outset leads to different results
If you want to understand someone’s dreams, ask: How can I help you become the person you want to be?