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AI Has A Trust Problem… And Coloring Books Won’t Fix It.
The AI industry has a new public relations strategy… children. Yes… children (as someone who has spent my career in
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Social Media Is Dying… Long Live The Intimacy Economy
What happened to social media? My feed has become content… not community. I barely see what my real friends are
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When Cameras Become Ambient
What even is a camera anymore? Does it feel like cameras are going through a radical transformation? A smartphone has
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Who Wrote This?
Did we need to define music that was created with samplers and computers differently than notes humans played on an
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Slop Grenades… AI Didn’t Create Work Slop… We Did
How many “slop grenades” have you thrown at work today? Shopify CEO and Co-Founder, Tobi Lutke, coined the term, and
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Speed Is Not The Problem… Speed Is Not Your Moat
Things are moving fast… faster… but what if speed is now the baseline, and we just have to accept that
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When Brand Becomes Business Infrastructure
What makes this different? What makes me care? What connects me to it? What keeps me engaged with it after
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The CD Is Back… But Not For The Music
CDs are back… which is weird… in a “vinyl was cool”… cassettes less so kind of way… Vinyl? I get
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The Power Of Brands With Lifang He – This Week’s Thinking With Mitch Joel Conversation
Episode #1052 of Thinking With Mitch Joel is now live. This conversation with Lifang He gets into a tension that
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The Power Of Brands With Lifang He – TWMJ #1052
Welcome to episode #1052 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation). Lifang He has spent more than
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What Work Should Stay Human?
Thinking that maybe the whole “which jobs will AI replace” has been the wrong question. Reasonable? Sure. Maybe the obvious
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AI Is Making Attention Cheap… So What Becomes Valuable?
Marketing has an attention problem (again). Not because attention is disappearing. Because we built an entire industry around the belief
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The AI Closet
What’s the old joke about sex in high school? Everyone is talking about it… but nobody is doing it. Is
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When Productivity Becomes Surveillance (Thanks, AI)
Something tells me that this is going to become a very contentious topic that is going to tweak how many
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Personalization Is Not Intimacy
As a kid I thought it was so cool to see my name in a book. I also realized that
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What Happens If ‘AI’ Becomes An Insult?
Young people lead all technology revolutions… including this AI one… right? They are digital natives… they grew up with smartphones,
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What Happens When We Prefer The AI Voice?
When Generative AI first appeared, most people thought that AI could never generate something creative… …then the conversation shifted to
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The Intimacy Of Machines That Remember
For decades, our relationship with technology has been surprisingly simple. We decided when to open the laptop. We chose when
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The Kids Are Not Alright With Big Tech
One of the more fascinating stories I read this week wasn’t about marketing, artificial intelligence, social media or the latest
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The End Of The Human Web?
One of the more fascinating statistics to emerge recently is that automated traffic now accounts for more than half of
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