Camille Moore asked Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, “What do you see as the biggest problem that’s facing branding right now?”
Continue reading “Rory Sutherland on ROI and Opportunity Cost”The purpose of journalism is to get the story and tell the story.
Peggy Noonan wrote a column titled The Purpose of Journalism Is to Get the Story (27 June 2024).
Continue reading “The purpose of journalism is to get the story and tell the story.”When clients hire us, they don’t want to hire people who are like themselves. They have enough of that already.
Paul Worthington wrote an article titled Where Are All the T-Shirts? for his Off Kilter newsletter, volume 177.
Continue reading “When clients hire us, they don’t want to hire people who are like themselves. They have enough of that already.”Payoff from AI Projects is Dismal
Thomas Claburn wrote an article for The Register titled Payoff from AI Projects is Dismal, Biz Leaders Complain (12 June 2024).
Continue reading “Payoff from AI Projects is Dismal”AI has an Uber problem… Capital is not a strategy
Tim O’Reilly wrote an article for The Information titled AI Has an Uber Problem: a handful of deep-pocketed investors distorts the market, fueling a race for monopoly that inhibits product-market fit. (pay wall)
Continue reading “AI has an Uber problem… Capital is not a strategy”Natalie Wexler on the declining literacy skills of college students
Natalie Wexler wrote an article titled The College Kids are Not All Right (2 June 2024).
« Reports from professors point to an alarming decline in cognitive capabilities, even at selective institutions… College professors are reporting that their students are no longer capable of reading or writing the kinds of complex texts that used to be routine assignments. »
Continue reading “Natalie Wexler on the declining literacy skills of college students”only 36% of American adults percent could name the three branches of the U.S. government
Chester E. Finn Jr. wrote an article for Education Next titled When College Students Don’t Understand the Concept of Free Speech (22 September 2017).
Continue reading “only 36% of American adults percent could name the three branches of the U.S. government”Algorithms and Intellectual Passivity
Eileen G’Sell wrote an article the Chronicle of Higher Education titled Algorithms and The Problem with Intellectual Passivity (30 May 2024).
Continue reading “Algorithms and Intellectual Passivity”the difference between a Mess, a Problem, and a Puzzle
Sean Brady interviewed Gerald Ashley on the Simplifying Complexity podcast (27 May 2024). The main topic was the difference between a Mess, a Problem, and a Puzzle.
Continue reading “the difference between a Mess, a Problem, and a Puzzle”Birds Aren’t Real: how misinformation spreads
Ian Beacock wrote an article for The New Republic titled Birds Aren’t Real: The Prank That Turned Misinformation on Its Head (28 May 2024). « Calling itself Birds Aren’t Real, this group of primarily Gen Z truthers… explain that the U.S. government secretly ran a “mass bird genocide” starting in the late 1950s, replacing the real avian population with sophisticated surveillance-drone look-alikes. Bird-watching now goes both ways. »
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