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If you only read one thing.
- All possible states: Defending marketing against fundamentalism | Martin Weigel
Management.
- Be proactive with “Prefrontal Mondays” | 99U
- Thoughts and advice for public speaking from the former Technical Evangelist at Mozilla | Rawkes
- How Google uses data to build a better worker | The Atlantic
Data and technology.
- The rise of nostalgia tech (by an Amish futurist!) | Fast Company
Insights.
- Sexism a problem in Silicon Valley, critics say. A good summary of a growing controversy | LA Times
- Why selfish people cooperate | Priceonomics
- The positive power of negative thinking | Adam Grant
Creativity.
- When looking at the successes of my peers, and seeing that my work has not yet gotten to that level, should I give up? | Tanner Christensen
- Survival creativity: “For the same reason it’s good to get outside after working indoors all day, I think it is equally healthy to train one’s mind to create in ways that do not cost anything. Survival creativity. This is less of a collapsitarian paranoia than a practical fear of ever finding one’s self priced out of creative thinking.” | Joanne McNeil
- The habits of highly successful young-adult fiction authors | The Atlantic
- Revisiting: The case for working with your hands | NYTimes.com
On Nextness this week.
- Steve Harris, the Managing Director of STW Group company The Brand Agency, attended the STW Group Silicon Valley Study Tour in October 2013. His report: LinkedIn values and leadership on a valley safari.
STW Group news.
- Westfield celebrates the boy who gives everything in Christmas campaign by Moon.
- And Moon creates look for Glasshouse Fragrances’ luxury brand extension range.
- OgilvyAction appoints Marcus Millgate for the newly created role of head of shopper marketing.
- Secrets of how to collaborate and innovate to be shared at SAGE, with Tim Devine, creative technologist with STW Group’s agency DT.
- RAC Roadside Assistance launches ‘We’ll get you to the good times’ campaign in WA via JWT Perth.
OMG | cool | wow.
- Are you in charge of putting together a conference or panel? Learn to Search.
- Podcast Thing helps you find your next favourite podcast.
- “Perhaps his next ad will just be an apology tacked onto a bulletin board.”
- EEEEEMAIL anonymously sends one of your sent emails to someone else…
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