steph dixon

If you pay attention to the right kind of weird, it will tell you where old values are crashing into new ones, and those new values are what you can build the future on top of. The most successful brands tapped into our new values before we even had the words to describe them, and they got an outsized return by betting on them early.

Knowing that she is to be subjected to the cold appraisal of the male connoisseur and that her life prospects may depend on how she is seen, a woman learns to appraise herself first. The sexual objectification of women produces a duality in feminine consciousness. The gaze of the Other is internalized so that I myself become at once seer and seen,

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Consumers participate in aspirational culture without participating in the aspirational market.

Earlier I wrote that if your feed is your front door, then your DMs are your dinner table. Or your Broadcast Channel. Or your Close Friends.

With New Social, we’ll see brands invest more deeply in areas where they can nurture relationships with their biggest fans.

Creative volume is more important than ever, from organic posting to testing for ads; integrating better concept ideation is crucial for brands to succeed, we want to be a key resource for you.

And that’s why art is, in a sense, truer than science — because nobody can actually know how the world is, only how it is experienced.

It is difficult to have solidarity when every interaction is a transaction and every opinion is a tradable asset.5

In the coming years, we will see more and more people publicly embody contradictions, and that will make it hard to categorize them in the algorithm of our minds. We will be forced to find beauty in the weirdness we’ve tried to optimize away. Merriam-Webster named authentic Word of the Year in 2023, but on the eve of 2025, it turns out we’ve been... See more