17 2024 September
This Yogurt Brand Will Pay You $1000 To Stay Off Social Media Until After the Election Is Over
How will you avoid the toxic conversations that often come along with an election cycle? It might start with avoiding social media altogether. Yogurt brand Stonyfield...
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05 2024 September
Why I Paid Human Musicians + Artists to Create the Sonic Identity for My Podcast
Earlier this week I posted on LinkedIn about a project that my team and I have been working on for nearly a year. During the pandemic, I...
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02 2024 September
UPDATE: Behind the Scenes of Influencers at the DNC Convention
Last week, many of you wrote to me about a story I shared about the treatment of the media at the Democratic National Convention and how they...
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28 2024 August
What the Democrats Got Wrong About Media at the Convention
One of the truths about our new media environment is the central role that influencers are taking in the content people consume and trust. Particularly...
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22 2024 July
Custom Fragrances Recreate What a Book Character Smells Like (and more)
Red wine spilled in a Birkin bag, smeared lipstick on suede, Maraschino cherry juice and stale cigarette ash. These are just a few ingredients in...
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18 2024 July
Are Colleges and Universities Failing Liberal-Leaning Students by Not Challenging Their Perspectives?
In a forthcoming book by Princeton Political Science Professor Lauren A. Wright, the author writes about her research process that involved interviews with self-described liberal and conservative...
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Porto and the Importance of City Branding
As I write this, I’m just off the stage here in Portugal at one of the largest business conferences of the year in Europe at...
Read Now12 2024 July
How Global Sports Are Showcasing a Surprising Upside of Immigration
This summer is a back-to-back sports frenzy in my household. It started with the T20 Cricket World Cup, followed closely by two major soccer tournaments:...
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A First Look at America’s Smartest Highway
Driverless vehicles are obviously going to be part of humanity’s future, but they aren’t experiencing a great PR moment right now. Every day it seems...
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Too Little Government
Is there such a thing as too little government? This feels like a loaded political question in a time when trust in government is historically low. Government and...
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What the Disappearing Dining Room Reveals About American Culture
There is a room in my house that is known by everyone as the “Thanksgiving Room.” According to the blueprints for the house, it was...
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A Promise to Graduates with “No Promise”
During these weeks of graduation, you are probably seeing lots of commencement speeches hit the web. They are filled with advice about how young people...
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The Unpredictable Gamble of Collecting Vintage Toys
If you are a child of the 80s, this week’s story of the latest vintage toy to sell for over half a million dollars (a Star Wars...
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