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Culture, Thinking
I dare you. Ask me one more time ‘Where are the women in tech?’
There are rooms full of men murmuring “where are all the women?” – from VCs to university deans to conference organizers. Great! Their job is done. They asked the question – what more can they be expected to do? They tried their diversity chops and the unequivocal conclusion was that “there are not enough women [...]
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Strategy, Thinking
Scarcity, Pace and MacGyver: My rapid talk at the 4A’s Strategy Festival
I got the neat opportunity to speak at the 4A’s Strategy Festival last month. It was a rapid 5 min pecha kucha style talk. Here’s the talk and the deck to go with it. This video made me realize that it’s probably a good thing that I am not a coffee person. Need to calm down. [...]
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Thinking
The potential of potential
Back in March this year, New York went a little crazy. For the lottery. Mega Millions drew the largest jackpot ever. Despite platitudes about the chances of being hit by lightning being higher than winning, we bought them tickets. For those few days, that’s all anyone would talk about. You could smell everyone’s secret faith in lady luck [...]
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Digital, Thinking
When data about data matters most
05.10.11 | Permalink | 7 CommentsData is abundant today. In a world where data is easily accessible – ‘data about data’ or metadata and how we manipulate it will become increasingly important. I’ve observed this with the music industry – but I think the principles apply to any form of digital commodity.
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Thinking
The value and the price of metaphors
02.16.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsWe are very liberal with the use of metaphors and models in our language, thought process and problem solving approaches. They act as bridges between concepts and disciplines. But without some vigilance, these metaphors notoriously pigeon-hole us into a partial suspension of reality.
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Strategy, Thinking
Thinking about thinking and the Planner brain
10.27.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsPlanners have supposed to have gone beyond digital, made something and figured out our T-shape. But what do strategists and planners do? What is our craft? Every person in an agency is a problem solver. Art directors solve by making things beautiful, copywriters solve by writing and technologists solve by making the interwebs tick. And [...]
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Culture, Thinking
Bieber fever and amorphous communities
08.02.10 | Permalink | 8 CommentsJustin Bieber is all set to write a book, play himself in a 3-D movie and rule the charts for (hopefully) a couple of years – and he knows how to escape on a segway. Teenage heartthrobs and the associated mass hysteria are not new phenomena. This Beatles video speaks for itself. I am in [...]
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Digital, Thinking
Chill out guys, we’ll fix this information overload
06.07.10 | Permalink | 6 CommentsI stare at my Tweetdeck dashboard and think “I should really stop following so many people.” It’s overwhelming. In addition to that, I have to keep up with scores of RSS feeds, my facebook friends, my Tumblr dashboard and good old email, of course. I’ve bitched about this “information overload” many times. And apparently, a [...]
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Thinking
Make a chart day #10
06.04.10 | Permalink | 32 CommentsYup! It’s official – Make a Chart Day is a phenomenon now and today the internets present to you its 10th installment. I am super psyched to host it on my shiny new blog. In case you don’t already know how to go about it, here’s what you need to do: Make an awesome chart. [...]
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Digital, Thinking
Thin slicing life
05.31.10 | Permalink | 11 CommentsThe phrase ‘going digital’ is tossed around carelessly by a lot of people. Everybody, from marketers to news media, is talking about how we are becoming digital creatures. But, what does it mean to ‘go digital’ and how does it relate to the way we lead our lives? If we are going “digital” now, what [...]
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