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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What Happens When Everyone Sounds Smart?
For most of my professional life, I was taught how to write “properly”. I started in journalism in the late
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A Kinder… Gentler Internet
I miss the internet. Not the slow modems… not the terrible websites… not the dancing animated GIFs… I miss the
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The Apple Of My Eye… And The Future Of Retail
Retail has spent decades trying to make the shopping experience disappear. Think about it… every major innovation in commerce has
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The Next Era Of Retail
I’m a strange bird… I love to shop… but I don’t buy that much. I like wandering through shopping malls
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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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Why Are We More Honest With Machines Than People?
I’ve searched for information about something deeply personal in a search engine that I would not share with a close
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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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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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AI Companions May Be Both A Miracle And A Terrible Mistake
How do you deal with feeling lonely? I was out for my morning walk listening to an episode of The
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We Built Marketing To Capture Attention… Then The Platforms Captured Marketing… So What Now?
Have marketers lost control of marketing? Marketers have not become less talented. Quite the opposite. We have smarter people, better
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The Future Of Work Is Not Human Versus Machine
I spent a full day with marketing agency owners trying to navigate this age of AI. I understand the panic…
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Modern Marketing With MichaelAaron Flicker – This Week’s Thinking With Mitch Joel Conversation
Episode #1035 of Thinking With Mitch Joel is now live. In this conversation with MichaelAaron Flicker we get into a
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Modern Marketing With MichaelAaron Flicker – TWMJ #1035
Welcome to episode #1035 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation). At a time when marketers have
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Should We Stop Being Polite To Chatbots?
There was a moment this week that made me feel uncomfortable… and it’s a little embarrassing. Sergey Brin (Google, Alphabet,
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Why We’re All Digitally Exhausted With Paul Leonardi – This Week’s Thinking With Mitch Joel Conversation
Episode #1017 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast) is now live and
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Why We’re All Digitally Exhausted With Paul Leonardi – TWMJ #1017
Welcome to episode #1017 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation). At a time when technology promises
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AI And The Future Of Marketing With Mark Schaefer – This Week’s Thinking With Mitch Joel Conversation
Episode #1016 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast) is now live and
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