Better at Work
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How to work better, job insecurities, job and career advice
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Thinking Tools
A collection of tools that are useful in creative problem solving which generally follows the steps of clarify, ideate, develop, and implement.
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The Strategy & Planning Scrapbook
“A curated collection of strategy frameworks, creative provocations, and planning tools — compiled from years of practice in brand strategy and advertising.”
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Value creation, bullshit jobs and the future of work
“Figure out who is seeking value and create it for them.”
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Management consultants are the looksmaxxers of the business world
“Remember: they're not smarter than you, they're just convinced they are.”
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After AI stole his clients, one Big Tech ghostwriter is using AI to get them back
“What can the future look like for me?”
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Mondays at the office
“Mondays at the office”
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The many joys of small talk
“A large amount of work consists of person A trying to get person B to do something even though both report to person C. Much is gained if A can keep up with B’s latest half-marathon times, and whether they prefer to holiday in Cornwall or Devon.”
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Don't Crowd My Screen: Etiquette For...
“If you didn’t create the doc, you’re a guest in someone else’s kitchen. Act accordingly.”
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In an always-on culture, employees try 'microshifting' to reclaim personal lives
“Sometimes the break’s when most of the work will get done in your head, because you’re not sitting in front of a laptop just staring at a screen going, ‘I can’t come up with anything,”
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Creative Career Conundrums: What can juniors do to compete with AI?
“Junior talent will always be necessary ... for providing fresh perspective.”
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Hot Streaks in Your Career Don't Happen by Accident
“Our data shows that people ought to explore a bunch of things at work, deliberate about the best fit for their skills, and then exploit what they’ve learned”
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Anxious Parents Are Spending More Than $50,000 to Land Their Kid a Job
“Her six-month programs run from $4,000 to $15,000.”
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Monotasking: Inside the Box Excerpt
“Constraints push the brain beyond its default tendencies, forcing deeper problem-solving”
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Beware software brain
“You can't advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences”
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Marketing engineers are the hire of 2026
“Marketing engineers are the hire of 2026. period.”
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AI will make your marketing team faster and worse
“A sharp take on how AI acceleration might compromise marketing quality and strategic thinking”
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Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don't Bet on It Now.
“Neither theory, history or the latest data suggests a recession driven by AI job dislocation is likely”
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Are You Coal or a Horse? The AI Job Paradox
“When technology leads to huge numbers of jobs disappearing quickly, bad things happen”
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Artist Corporations
“A new type of company designed for creative people. Artists keep majority control, intellectual property is protected by law, and the artistic mission comes first.”
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The Semantic Drift of The Strategist
“So I grabbed 100 titles from 2nd-degree connections on LinkedIn that had strategy somewhere in the visible profile and ran some analysis.”
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There's a graveyard of half-resolved questions
“Ideas are cheap right now. Getting the people in charge to make explicit decisions is the hard part.”
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Young People Are Switching Careers to Avoid Being Replaced by AI
“From electricians to firefighters to açai bowl entrepreneurs, young Americans are pivoting careers based on one fear: AI taking their jobs”
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
“On their own initiative workers did more because AI made “doing more” feel possible, accessible, and in many cases intrinsically rewarding.”
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Sloperators
“If you give steroids to a Little League baseball player, they’re still a ten-year-old boy. Give them to Barry Bonds and he breaks every record in the books.”
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Selling Strategy Without the Sleaze
“You are remembered for the help you provide, not the noise you make.”
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How to Drop Killer Workshops
“Market the workshop activities like you are teaching children.”
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The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Andy Pressman
“It’s in your interest to be a sicko, making work for other sickos.”
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How to Drop Killer Workshops
“Market the workshop activities like you are teaching children.”
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2nd Annual Metalabel Survey of Creatives: Doing it anyway
“BEING AUTOMATED OUT OF OUR OWN CREATIVITY” WHILE “LEARNING SKILLS THAT FEEL LIKE MAGIC.”
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