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On advertising, persuasion and the lost skill of cognitive empathy
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On the business response to the war in Ukraine, the blank map of purpose, the ethics of sanctions, and the limits of conscious consumerism.
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On Innocent, Walkers, the IPA, social media, the New York Times, cancel culture, and conversation as an alternative to war.
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On Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, Noble Cause Corruption, why 'starting with why' is a charter for corporate self-delusion, and the importance of saying…
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On toxic positivity, the negative path to happiness, context-dependent optimism, and the lifecycle of a creative project.
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On the latest twist in the Purpose story – and why everyone ignored the most interesting thing about it.
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On a word that has radically changed life in our household: ‘unschooling’.
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In which I identify five vulnerabilities that keep causing conversations to crash.
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On the response to the last post; a related book by Steve Harrison; the ghost of Milton Friedman; Gordon Gekko and the Cult of We; Uber; Mohammed bin…
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The dominance of purpose-based work at creative awards schemes is part of an industry trend spanning two decades. But has the industry lost contact with…
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Hello, welcome to Thoughts on Writing. I am he as he is me. I have not yet had all the thoughts I will be writing about, because writing will be the way…
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