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Hugh MacLeod
In the middle of a career as an adman in New York, Hugh MacLeod found himself doodling acerbic and almost surreal cartoons on the back of people's business cards to pass the time in bars. Everyone seemed to like the idea, so he kept going. Things started going gangbusters when he pimped his cartoons on the internet, and as he built an audience through his blog, he started writing about his other passion – the new world of understanding how to adapt marketing to the new world of the net. [Read More]
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Damn. Here We Are.
Send to Kindle [buy the print etc] [newsletter] A CEO would need a lot of cajones to hang this one in the office. It's pretty contentious. Culturally speaking, its nitroglycerin. But the thing is, there are two ways of reading it: [One:] Oy vey, this...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
gapingvoid Business Cards
Send to Kindle Link: gapingvoid business cards now available on moo.com!...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
How Most Marketing Works
Send to Kindle [Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] There is a popular idea that everyone hates marketing. So much so, my Twitter buddy, Scott Stratten has built an outstanding business out of the idea. Of course, it all depends how you defin...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Career Hierarchy
Send to Kindle [Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] I don't know about you, but it took me twenty years to get from the bottom to the top of the pyramid. And I don't think that's outrageously long compared to most people, I really don't. Was ...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
"Everyone Hates Our Idea"
Send to Kindle [Originally sent out in the gapingvoid newsletter etc.] No one is going to like your idea at first. Again, it's all got to do with change. New ideas, good and bad, mean change. And people are hardwired to fear change. It's what kept ou...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Marcus Aurelius
Send to Kindle [Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] [Buy the print] Besides being a Roman Emperor (and damn good one at that), Marcus Aurelius was also one of the great Stoic philosophers. His "Meditations" is one of the first self-help books...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
On cartooning
Send to Kindle [Originally published, September, 2007] December, 2007 marks the 10-year anniversary of my "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" format. Here's some random notes on the subject, in no particular order: 1. I came up with the fo...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013
"Keep the day job".
Send to Kindle There's a great article in Slate [Thanks to Austin Kleon for the link] about how a lot of famous artists managed to still do their thing while still holding down a regular, long-term day job. Joseph Cornell, one of my favorite artists,...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013
The Paradox of Fear
Send to Kindle When I was a young student in late-1980s London, I met the really well-known and respected heavyweight art director, Mark Reddy. Mark was already a legend by then, Head of Art at DDB London, one of the best ad agencies in the country. ...
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Monday, May 06, 2013
The Hughtrain, Mark Two
Send to Kindle THE HUGHTRAIN MkII 1. The market for something to believe in is infinite. We are here to find meaning. We are here to help other people do the same. Everything else is secondary. We humans want to believe in our own species. And ...
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Monday, May 06, 2013
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