by David | Jan 26, 2015 | culture, photo, technology
A “selfie stick” if you haven’t heard, is something like a monopod and something like a cry for help. These gizmos, used to take photos of oneself and one’s friends (if one has any) at greater than arms-length, are apparently all the rage and...
by David | Jan 22, 2015 | culture, working
I resolve to focus on execution. There’s a bias for Big Ideas. I like Big Ideas as much as the next guy, but in my life as a marketer – not a philosopher – I have to constantly tie Big Ideas back to execution. That doesn’t mean having no...
by David | Jan 14, 2015 | culture, reading & writing
Let’s not dwell on why I was looking up the word callipygian, or, for that matter, why I checked the Google books ngram graph for it. Let us instead wonder, who, or maybe what, a century and change before Minaj, before Kardashian, even before Mix-a-Lot, inspired...
by David | Jan 8, 2015 | culture
The trouble with setting your clock radio to the news is that you wake up thinking you had a bad dream only to discover it was the news seeping into your groggy head. Truth is sometimes more awful than fiction. As you may have heard, 12 people in France were murdered...
by David | Jan 2, 2015 | culture, design
I got to the post office early to buy stamps. I knew the windows would be closed but was planning to buy stamps from the machine. A week after Christmas, here were my options: How many Christmas stamps would you like? Zero is how many I would like. No other options,...
by David | Aug 20, 2014 | culture, reading & writing
From Welcome to Germany comes today’s word of the day, Backpfeifengesicht. And what a welcome it would be: The word Backpfeife means “punch/slap” (on the cheek/face) and Gesicht means “face” So a Backpfeifengesicht is pretty much a face...
