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I have always tended to argue that social media makes people be brands, whereas Lorenz’s book argues that people are brands first and they forced soci
While it might seem at first glance that things like changing your work and talking about yourself are separate challenges, I see them as directly con
Start in the future and work backward
If you pay attention, you’ll see that today’s winning brands understand the customer’s story is the only one that matters. Your most important job as
Solving a problem for your user is great, but easing their cognitive dissonance can have a much greater emotional impact. There is likely something th
Consumer behavior is never done or satisfied. One of the great things about brands is that magical products or platforms or experiences can delight cu
Consumer founders today are solving for abundance. Too much food, pollution, stimulation, and connections leads to obesity, climate change, mental hea

If the media is fragmented, how would you define the fragment that you are inhabiting yourself?It’s interesting. Last week we talked with Flynn McGarr
Could you give me some examples of — I don’t want to say AI-safe or AI-proof — but the types of journalism that are going to be the most robust in the
David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve
If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it
We’ve replaced time in the field with time on our phones. What we now call experience is the weighted average of our own and the residue of what other
Four shifts, and notice what they have in common.Oral defense. A student sits with the work and answers for it live. You cannot outsource what you hav
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A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera
My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter












