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03 2026 August
What AI Generated Bird Photos Can Teach Us About Database Pollution
One of the engaging art concepts from AI artist Kelly Boesch features a collection of birds that don’t exist. The video is hard to stop watching,...
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This Genetic Engineering Startup Wants to Make Fluorescent Bunnies and Actual Unicorns
In case you needed more life imitating fiction, a startup known as The Los Angeles Project is using gene editing to experiment with doing some “crazy” things to...
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Open AI Launched a New Brand Look and Expensive Super Bowl Ad … Made by Humans
Open AI has launched a cohesive new brand identity and look which was also featured in their first Super Bowl Ad last week. The campaign...
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What Meta’s Latest Effort to Help Kids Spot Predators Really Tells Us
There is a question that journalists learn to consider often which we should all get better at asking: why now? Any time a story crosses...
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The Secret of Startup Success Might Be Who Is Willing to Lose Money the Longest
Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, Uber … all dominant players in their industry. What if the secret to their success is just that they were all willing...
Read Now18 2025 February
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: How To Winter by Dr. Kari Leibowitz
February is notorious for being the toughest month of the year for many people. In the Northern hemisphere, these are the cold winter months where social isolation...
Read Now17 2025 February
Is This the Age of the Obscured Brand Logo?
There was a longstanding joke among my agency friends about the type of feedback we would often get from corporate clients when presenting our creative...
Read Now14 2025 February
The Super Bowl Halftime Show Went Over Many People’s Heads. Here’s What It Meant …
Recently it seems like stories about social media often center on the negative impact of various platforms making it easy to spread misinformation, fuel hate...
Read Now13 2025 February
Are Book Blurbs Worth the Effort or a Tradition That “Rewards Connections Over Talent”?
By any measure, I’ve been pretty successful at getting book blurbs across my ten published books. Deepak Chopra. Tony Robbins. Adam Grant. They have all...
Read Now12 2025 February
The Intrigue and Lessons of Canceled TV Shows and Abandoned Pilots
I find the idea of canceled TV programs to be intriguing. I always have. It’s not that I enjoy reading about the creative misfortune of...
Read Now11 2025 February
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Negotiating While Black by Damali Peterman
If you are an avid follower of our Non-Obvious Book Awards program, you might recognize this week’s selection: Negotiating While Black. It was our pick...
Read Now10 2025 February
Poopy Diapers and How to Destroy a Small Business with Minimal Effort
Paul and Rachelle Baron sell washable swim diapers on Amazon. Like many other small businesses, they use the logistics arm of Amazon to provide distribution...
Read Now07 2025 February
What The AI-Enhanced Beatles Grammy Award Win Tells Us About the Future of Memories
In case you missed it, at this past weekend’s Grammy Awards, the Beatles took home the win for Best Rock Performance for the AI-assisted track...
Read Now06 2025 February
Bad Bunny Celebrates Puerto Rico and His Heritage by Creating Exclusive Experience
The first nine shows of Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s upcoming summer tour are sold out. That’s not particularly surprising. The interesting thing about them...
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