What The World Can Be

August 19, 2020

I would cut off my pinkie toe if we could just skip 2020 and go on to whatever comes next. Just the idea of having lunch with my wife at our favorite restaurant without worrying about a mask or the virus or the fires or the injustice or the thousand other worries 2020 has wrought […]

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Revelations

August 12, 2020

Here we are, called to introspection daily.  I, for one, relate to Michelle Obama’s depression and simultaneously see the work ahead.  My mother is an eternal optimist and refuses to not see a shinier side to just about anything.  As with all things there is beauty and dark in that sentiment.  I choose to see […]

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Humility v. Humiliation

August 5, 2020

Gotcha culture.  Being pedantic and refusing to act with any sort of context beyond your own myopia is the disease of our time that needs to end.  Being uncomfortable does not mean that you need to double down — i.e., scream louder, it just means you have to admit that you do not know the […]

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The First Meeting

July 29, 2020

There is so much discussion about selling.  How to win a client, what will turn the business to you, etc.  Overdone, myopic and intensely plastic. Not that I am grateful for the pandemic, but in this sense I am.  Finally, the gravitas of emotion and the desperate want of art has overtaken the functionality of […]

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Lessons From The Abyss

July 22, 2020

Here is what I hope the pandemic and all things upheaval teaches us: 1) we are all delusional; 2) intelligence is about quality, not quantity; and 3) the zero sum paradigm is a zombie that needs a wooden stake through its heart. It is an old trope that if you asked almost any entrepreneur (creative […]

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Change

July 15, 2020

What a moment we are living in as people, artists and creative business owners.  I, for one, am amazed at what is happening in the United States, and not in a good way.  I was a senior in high school in 1984 and did a term paper on the value of airbags and the new […]

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Design First

July 1, 2020

Here we are. Broadway is cancelled until 2021, AMC theaters pushed back its opening date until the end of July; Disneyland has delayed reopening indefinitely; Texas and Arizona (and soon many other States I suspect) have closed bars, restaurants, movie theaters and gyms once again; oh, and people cannot travel from the U.S to the […]

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The World Keeps Spinning

June 24, 2020

The world is a messy, ugly place.  Nature is cruel and unforgiving.  Truly, there is no escape from brutality if you look for it, especially today.  Yes, there is evil in the world and those that seek to do unspeakable harm.  Most believe in their righteousness and generosity before they speak of their inhumanity.  None […]

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Power

June 17, 2020

The one thing that resonates ever more deeply every day for me is power.  Entrenched power, systemic bias designed to prevent access to authentic power.  The influence of money and status on conferred power.  The idea that misuse and abuse of power creates motivations against self-interest.  Such is the status quo, tribalism and hegemony. The […]

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To The Light

June 10, 2020

As we all set out into a new world order, to try to figure out if our creative business is relevant or not, or better, how we are going become ever more relevant in what we all hope is a new world order, we have to know that we have to take a risk.  Even […]

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