Marcus Brown
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Marcus Brown
Both forces—the Busy Bandwagon and the Infinity Pools—are powerful because they’ve become our defaults. In technology lingo, default means the way something works when you first start using it. It’s a preselected option, and if you don’t do something to change it, that default is what you get. For example, if you buy a new phone, by default you get
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You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
According to iCloud, I have more than 23,000 photos and almost 2,000 videos resting somewhere on Apple’s servers. I have tens of thousands of songs liked somewhere in Spotify. How much is jotted down in my Notes app? How many conversations do I have stored in Messages, in WhatsApp, in Signal, in Twitter and Instagram and Facebook DMs? There is so m... See more
Wow…. This is me
There is no end of theories for why the internet feels so crummy these days. The New Yorker blames the shift to algorithmic feeds. Wired blames a cycle in which companies cease serving their users and begin monetizing them. The M.I.T. Technology Review blames ad-based business models. The Verge blames search engines. I agree with all these argument... See more
Super Powerful - and true. Thanks Sari for the article suggestion on substack.
Today, you can barely watch a commercial break or go to the supermarket without every brand pitching its saint-like gospel: "For a better world," "Ridding our oceans of plastic," or "We believe in healthier communities"! Who to believe? Who's authentic? Seems like purpose is up for sales like indulgences in the Middle Ages
Thomas Kolster • Brand Purpose at a Crossroad: Evolve or Self-Implode
Have we really traded purpose for profit? Will this stop as soon as its not profitable anymore?
1. Content marketing is a numbers game.
This wasn't Larry's first piece of content. This wasn't even Larry's one-hundredth. In reality, Larry had already published thousands of pieces of content by the time this campaign took off, ranging from podcasts to blog posts to videos to ebooks." https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/viral-campaign-tips-larry-k
Great article about AI role
