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 [...]
Eat your whole grains and fiber!
Published under Food Industry, Health, Interesting Random Stuff Mar 30, 2015Eating 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 on their new campaign message quoting Herman Melville: “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
surprisingly effective advertising
Published under Advertising (good vs misleading), Interesting Random Stuff, Marketing Mar 04, 2015Well done, Southern Comfort. Southern Comfort // Beach from Jeff Dryer on Vimeo.
My kids are animals! (And so are yours). Thanks Dr. David Katz for sharing.
Recommended Read: Zillow Talk,The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff & Stan Humphries
Published under Economics, Interesting Random Stuff Feb 18, 2015
On the many mistakes that led to KIND Snacks’ success
Published under Entrepreneurship and Management, Introspection, KIND Snacks, Leadership Feb 17, 2015Reflecting 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 [...]
Recommended Read: The Work by Wes Moore
Published under Entrepreneurship and Management, Interesting Random Stuff, Leadership Feb 12, 2015In 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 [...]
Matti Friedman on What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel
Published under Israel, Media and Alternative Media, Middle East, Mideast Negotiations, OneVoice Movement, Palestine Dec 02, 2014By 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 [...]