Baltimore
As you may have heard, the Mid-Atlantic US (in which I currently live) got hammered by a massive snowstorm this weekend. Weather reports had been sensationalizing the potentially apocalyptic effects of the storm for days, warning that we could see a record snowfall and complete paralysis of city functions. And if you doubt that people [...]
Whenever friends from Pittsburgh ask me how I’m adapting to Baltimore, I tell them the truth: Baltimore and Pittsburgh are so similar on so many levels that “adapting” hasn’t been necessary. It’s more like I’ve just moved to an extremely remote Pittsburgh neighborhood, and now it takes me 4 hours to get to the nearest [...]
Yesterday, I explained why I think Microsoft sees its customers as idiots — an opinion that sparked a debate about the very nature of advertising. Like politics, war and most other conflicts, advertising boils down to the challenge of convincing other people that YOUR worldview (or your client’s) is the most valid. So does that [...]
If social media is one big conversation, then persuasion is one key to propelling that conversation forward. If nobody ever agrees on anything, we’ll never move beyond the same presumptions we began with, and our present state will never change — at least not on purpose. Yet, having witnessed just how ineffective people actually are [...]
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