Tony Writer
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Tony Writer
If Nike announced that they were opening a hotel, you’d have a pretty good guess about what it would be like. But if Hyatt announced that they were going to start making shoes, you would have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what those shoes would be like. That’s because Nike owns a brand and Hyatt simply owns real estate.
The Elegance of Nothing
if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
daisy.substack.comOne issue with corporate comms is there’s too much “how to build a boat” and not enough “why you should should yearn for the vast and endless sea”
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
– Peter Drucker
All desire is a desire for being.”
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
once again, I am deeply disgusted that I must first be bad at something in order to get good at it
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