Generative AI is at the Jurassic Park Moment
A lot of people are concerned about Generative AI right now. We’re looking at a very wide swatch of “intelligent” tools that are taking people’s jobs away. Or at least that’s what …
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Marketing Never Has All The Answers
I had one of “those” meetings with one of our clients today. If you’re in marketing, you know what I mean. We were called out for non-performance: lots of money spent, very little result. The client …
Return to the United Kingdom
Last year, when we were trying to determine if were going to go somewhere for Spring Break, we make jokes about going to England. And then we did. It was, easily, one of the best trips. It had it’s harrowing …
The Problem with Infinity
About a year ago, I started listening to podcasts. (I know, I’m late to the game. Moving on…) While there are so, so many to choose from, I’ve found myself very much gravitated towards BBC …
Morality in the Marketing World
I’ve been in marketing since the mid-ish 1990s, in one form or another, and done actual agency marketing for about 20 years in that time. I’m not going to say “been there, done that, seen it all”, …
2022, a Year in Review
So far, the 2020s are gaining a reputation for being difficult. Heck, even the memes have starting latching onto this, where kids in the future will spend months trying to even understand the year 2020, never mind when …
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Go Hugo!
A few years back, this website ran on WordPress. I genuinely like WordPress, not just for blogging but also for some general (simple) content needs. What I don’t like about WordPress? The size of the server …
New Year's Tea, 2023
Traditions are just meaningful habits. - Me Another year, another tea. I mean, that could be the post, but there’s a few things worth mentioning… First, Anarchy and Chaos – sorry, I mean Monkey and …
Turn That Music Down!
Jeremy pinged me a few weeks back: Big Sugar is coming, did I want to go? Given our previous two concerts this year alone, I was in. But more important, this is Big Sugar, which was a notable part of my late-1990s life. …
It's too quiet
It’s quiet. Too quiet. At this time of the year, in the marketing industry, it’s usually mayhem: everyone trying to get their sales up as the year winds down, get holiday specials out the door, and my …