31 2024 October
3 Fun Examples of Non-Obvious Halloween Creativity to Share
Today is Halloween and a new survey suggests that for nearly half of all Americans, it’s their favorite holiday of the year. Amidst all the...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: A Kids Book About Diwali by Chhavi Arya Bhargava
Diwali is for everyone. That’s the biggest perspective you’ll get from A Kids Book About Diwali … which isn’t really just for kids. Going far...
Read Now18 2024 October
The Virtues of [Not] Playing It Safe
Can a song capture 50 years of one of the most iconic buildings in the world? Tim Minchin is an Australian composer who was commissioned...
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The Rewear Chair Makes It Easier to Avoid Washing Your Clothes
You probably have a chair like this. The one where you throw those clothes that aren’t quite laundry. They still have a few wears left....
Read Now09 2024 August
Best & Worst Marketing Ideas from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
It’s time for another review of the best and worst of the Olympic Games marketing. This isn’t a complete list but some of my initial...
Read Now08 2024 August
Four Entirely Predictable Olympic Stories That Happen Every Time
Anyone who follows the Olympics knows there are some media narratives that happen every four years and always turn out the same. There are myths and then...
Read Now07 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...
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