Vikram Mekala

By the way, I share Brown’s sense of nostalgia for the early social media era, when sharing felt personal and real-life connections were forged. Some of my closest industry friends came from those early days on Twitter, and Mandy Brown was, in fact, one of the archetypes I looked up to

The biggest education companies built this decade, in my mind, will be personalized learning and tutoring businesses.

The 8 skills to manage stress are: 

Positive events: Notice when positive things happen in your life

Savoring: Relish the positive things in your life

Gratitude: Appreciate what brings you happiness

Mindfulness: Focus on the present moment without judgment

Positive reappraisal: Find the silver lining 

Self-compassion: Be kind to yourself

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Five areas where Sorrell sees AI impacting advertising and media

1. Visualisation and copy writing. What took three weeks can take two hours. More use of text to visuals. This is a double-edged sword for agencies selling their services on time.


2. Hyper personalisation. Netflix has already taught us how to use data to create content at scale. AI can hel

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So maybe, all you need to do is be known for ONE thing, or capture ONE audience well and serve relevant shopping ads.

Absolutist thinking drives polarisation and entrenches us in binaries. A more nuanced, flexible approach to ideas – and each other – might serve us all better

You don’t make something people love by building what they ask for or by trying to infer a vision from data about their short-term behavior. Instead, you need to genuinely understand and care about the people you seek to serve, and then use your intuition to make something that they didn’t even realize they needed, that will light them up and feel ... See more

In Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?, advertising executive Rory Sutherland challenges our knee-jerk assumption that faster is always better. He asks us to consider what might happen if we approached problem-solving and decision-making with a more open-ended, human-centered perspective.

He offers a thought experiment: what if the brief to des... See more