07 2024 August
Women’s Athletics Are a Big Story at Paris 2024 … But Equality Remains a Challenge
This is the first Olympics which will have true parity in terms of male versus female athletes and competitors. It’s a big story here at the...
Read Now05 2024 August
The Best Part of the Olympics You Don’t Get to See … Country Houses
For me, every Olympics has different highlights, from being one of the few non-athletes allowed in the Olympic Village in Beijing to watching Usain Bolt complete a...
Read Now23 2024 July
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Art of Gathering – How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
Several years ago, I read this wonderful book by Priya Parker and it really stayed with me so I thought I’d resurface it this week...
Read Now24 2024 June
What If Award Winning Ads from Cannes Became Open Source for Anyone to Use?
This week is the Cannes Creative Festival and so there are plenty of the usual healthy jokes about Cannes being a yacht-party fueled satire of itself....
Read Now14 2024 May
Imagining the Future of Hip Hop and Art in 50 Years
The day after the Met Gala, the Internet was flooded with deep fakes of celebrities who weren’t there, wearing things they never wore. Some of them...
Read Now15 2024 April
Augmented Reality Comes to Sports, Thanks to Wrestlemania
Last weekend The Rock made his return to wrestling and a “new era” for the sport was on display at WWE’s Wrestlemania 40 event. The...
Read Now03 2024 April
What The “Bridesmaid Burnout” Tells Us About the Future of Friendship
Back in early Fall of 2023, Glamour magazine launched a series of articles on the topic of “bridesmaid burnout.” Inspired by the spiraling demands of time, money...
Read Now12 2024 February
Super Bowl Marketing Recap: The Best, Worst and Almost Ok Ads From The Big Game
This year’s Super Bowl Ads cost $7 million – and most are being rated today based on their entertainment value. Not exactly the metric I...
Read Now09 2024 January
The World’s Biggest Tech Trade Show: CES 2024
Coming back to work last week, my inbox was filled with pitches about products, technologies, and innovations that are launching at CES this week. I...
Read Now13 2023 December
Behind the Parties, Pills, and Paintings at the Art Basel Fair in Miami Beach
Sold artwork at an art fair receives a revered red dot sticker indicating it has found a home, or it has been “placed” (in art...
Read Now24 2023 October
New Wiggles Documentary Offers Up Exactly the Radical Optimism the World Needs Right Now
They say meeting your heroes never ends well. But they have never met the Wiggles. This week at SXSW Sydney I was able to attend...
Read Now17 2023 October
The Las Vegas Sphere Could “Change Live Entertainment Forever”
I don’t often buy into the cringe-worthy hyperbole you often get from press releases, but the opening of The Sphere in Las Vegas might not be exaggerating...
Read Now14 2023 October
SXSW Sydney and a Sneak Peek at the Non-Obvious Podcast
Next week I'll be back in Australia speaking at the international edition of SXSW in Sydney. In addition to doing a Featured Session, I'll be recording two episodes LIVE from the stage for my upcoming Non-Obvious Show podcast (launching later this year).
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