How would you advertise this to kids? Do that but for adults.
Is a Fundamental Culture Shift Happening? (Yes)
Excerpt from The Atlantic Article “AMERICA IS HAVING A MORAL CONVULSION”
The late Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington noticed that these convulsions seem to hit the United States every 60 years or so
These moments share certain features. People feel disgusted by the state of society. Trust in institutions plummets. Moral indignation is widespread. Contempt for established power is intense.
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PIRATED READINGS
Downloaded a couple new books this week to add to the end of a very long “to read” list.
Weird is one that I don’t expect to tell me anything I don’t know, but hopefully will be full of fun anecdotes
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy is likely going to be one of those books that could just as easily be a WARC paper at 1/10th of the length. But I like the premise that there are fundamental types of strategy approaches and it is beneficial to be deliberate in which you choose.
STRAT_SCRAPS
I’m down with the Rules of the Art Department at the Immaculate Heart College
The role of a Planner in a nutshell: Fuck Around. Find Out.
Life advice.
Nothing has to come from it to be productive.
I’m still working on 1 and 4. I’ll get to 2 and 3 next.
Same can be said of briefing.