I was asked for some tips on how to start a marketing/advertising project. Here are three: Don't say brand The first problem you'll find is that marketing is full of impenetrable jargon. That's not a bad thing in itself, jargon can be a
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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: Posh Grandpa is fashion’s new main characterThe latest character dressing trend may be a little silly but there’s an off-kilter pleasure in its mellow, vintage vibeThe GuardianJess Cartner-Morley
Fantastic 30 mins from Radio 3 "At the crest of Japan's economic bubble, in the spring of 1991, a radio station unlike any other began broadcasting from satellite into homes across the country. St.GIGA carried no news, no commercials, no DJs. Instead, it offered an unbroken
Opinion Show
This is a saying stolen and adapted from the splendid Paynter people. I talk about it in the Do Interesting book. And I've been thinking of it because I've been reading Inside The Box by David Epstein. It's about the fact that freedom doesn&
Earlies
I've started waking up unaccountably early. 5am most days. Not deliberately, I just wake up. And it's not a bad thing, I enjoy the mornings so I get up. But then I find myself at a loose end. It doesn't feel like reading time,
Presenting
I miss doing presentations. Standing up and presenting stuff to people I don't know. Pre-COVID I did them a lot and I used to really enjoy it. It was an opportunity to think about things, to craft an argument and to see how it landed with real
MJQAM
I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching old Modern Jazz Quartet concerts, as a quartet and as individuals. This is one of my favourites. Milt Jackson, just a few months before he died at 76.
EBCB
Because of the cafe book and blog I get a lot of emails, journalists etc wanting me to comment on or decry the closure of a cafe by rapacious landlords. This, from London Centric, is almost always the story of what's really happened. "We do a lot
From Stephen Colbert
Seeing the board go up for added time | 4764A plastic Paw Patrol football, elephants have names, big up the corporate gangAcast
The most London pic of 2026 EY retracts study after researchers discover AI hallucinations This is a good way to talk about your product: "It’s not champagne but it has dignity, and is full of flavour." Beware if you're using LLMs for qual analysis: https: