Andrew Reeves
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Andrew Reeves
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A man proposes an advertising campaign for his cooperative donut business, focusing on its communal ownership model, but is advised to prioritize the product over the philosophy.
LinkThe Distance Model of Status and Brands: Columbia Professor Silvia Bellezza came and spoke to us at Exposure.. It's the idea that old status signifiers used to go upmarket (more money, more access, more time) but when all of that has become democratized, our new model of status is about gaining distance from the mainstream. It so eloquently explain
... See more"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert
applies to every creative project
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The Links x Techno Sapiens guide to teens & screens
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Teens screens and screams
Membership is also a vehicle of the modern aspiration economy. It represents a shift from doing things for the benefit of others (conspicuous consumption) to a value model where we invest in things that benefit ourselves: access, knowledge, information, experience, privacy, belonging, self-actualization. In the modern aspiration economy, consumers ... See more
Ana Andjelic • From Loyalty to Membership
Celebrity, even the modest sort that comes to writers, is an unhelpful exercise in self-consciousness. Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ‘somebody,’ to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen.
... See moreMy claim is that luxury goods are gradually becoming a noisier signal of one's position in society. This isn't to say that they don't still confer status — they clearly do. People still buy material items to signal their status. But because they've become a noisier signal over time, people are starting to signal their status with their beliefs and ... See more
The Profile Interview: Author Rob Henderson on Why We Hold ‘Luxury Beliefs’ and Develop ‘Status Anxiety’
Joy is always a surprise, and often a decision.
Anne Lamott • Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
“The fossil fuel companies and their enablers entice addiction to their products. They sell cars and oil as sex and freedom; plastics as modernity and convenience; methane, which increases the risk of asthma in children on par with passive smoking, as ‘natural’ gas. We could have had electric vehicles decades ago if the automobile and oil industrie
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