Curiosity slakes the thirst.
I’ve noticed that people who read a lot of blogs and a lot of books also tend to be intellectually curious, thirsty for knowledge, quicker to adopt new ideas and more likely to do important work. I wonder which comes first, the curiosity or the success? That’s an easy one for me, Seth. I’ll definitely say [...]

How To Be Creative.
I’m pimping this in multiple places because I’m pretty proud of this lecture. I think it covers some good ground that would be of interest to a lot of you out there, and just in case you don’t follow every site that I publish1, I felt justified in being redundant. Here is the video from my [...]

It's OK to fake your way.
I just saw a post from my super smart colleague Kevin entitled Show, Don’t Tell that talks about making sure you have the type of work in your first portfolio that reflects what you want to do in your career. If you want to be in advertising, your portfolio better be full of concepts. If you [...]

Success? Yeah, that falls in your lap.
A telephone conversation I had yesterday reminded me of an exchange I had with a student when I visited Kansas State University earlier this month. I spoke to the Principles of Advertising class about exploring fresh ideas for clients and some possible cutting-edge (for now) technologies that will likely become de rigueur media channels when these [...]

No more comments.
As another small part of this site’s unending transformation, I decided to turn off commenting. This really shouldn’t affect the overall experience of the site because very few people ever left comments on my posts in the first place, so what’s not used can’t be missed, right? I have left trackbacks enabled and have left Disqus commenting [...]