As a marketer, I find this ‘Dash’ button and service from Amazon intriguing. As a human, I truly relate to this critique in The New Yorker about mindless robotic consumerism. The power of inertia is such that millions still pay AOL for dial up service today. Progressively automating our shopping experience makes for a more [...]

Eating whole grains was inversely associated with risk of all-cause mortality and death from cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disease, infections and other causes. People with the highest intake of whole grains, or in the highest quintile, had a 17% lower risk of all-cause mortality while the percentages for disease-specific mortality ranged from 11% to [...]

Kudos to Cadillac!

Published under Interesting Random Stuff, Marketing Mar 26, 2015

Kudos to Cadillac on their new campaign message quoting Herman Melville: “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”    

Well done, Southern Comfort. Southern Comfort // Beach from Jeff Dryer on Vimeo.

A great video to teach kids to eat well

Published under Health Mar 02, 2015

My kids are animals! (And so are yours). Thanks Dr. David Katz for sharing.

 

Reflecting on the mistakes I’ve made along the way and the lessons I’ve learned from them. What do you wish you’d known when you were first starting KIND? I wish I had better understood patience as a virtue. In the early days, I, like many entrepreneurs, was hungry for growth and determined to do anything [...]

In his latest book, Wes Moore inspires readers with a search for purpose.

I’m catching up on the Super Bowl ads that I missed. Here are a few of my favorites: It’s ok to be a fun brand and just be yourself and not try to be something else. This ad is awesome. And very much in brand. I loved this ad from Dove – made me shed [...]

  By Matti Friedman During the Gaza war this summer, it became clear that one of the most important aspects of the media-saturated conflict between Jews and Arabs is also the least covered: the press itself. The Western press has become less an observer of this conflict than an actor in it, a role with consequences [...]