What we’ve been reading | 28th March
Inside the box | Slate People don’t actually like creativity | 8 min readFour deep trends affecting tech today | Co.Design Including the blurry line between creepy and acceptable, the ability of...
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How Tesla is driving the new purpose economy | Co.Exist The electric car company is slowly reshaping how people think about driving. Following the same pattern can help any social entrepreneur get...
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How we think about class | Billfold An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he’s working on these days. ‘My thesis is on the survival of the...
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The Confidence Gap | The Atlantic In studies, men overestimate their abilities and performance, and women underestimate both. Here’s why, and what to do about it | 10 min readThe Invention of the...
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Today’s guest post is by Mark Sareff, Chief Strategy Officer at Ogilvy Australia.Eddie Hart was my dream CEO. He barged into my office one day when I worked in Marketing demanding to know: ‘Why,...
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Everyone Deserves Great Design | Ehsan Noursalehi A guide on how to make products that matter | 10 min read Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea | The Atlantic If net neutrality...
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We need online alter ago now more than ever | Wired Persistent pseudonyms can both encourage civility and preserve privacy. So why is there such a strong push for real names on the internet? The...
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Bridging the divide | Inside Retail When the experience exceeds expectation, we gain customer advocacy.The science of social proof | Buffer 5 types and the psychology behind why they work.The two...
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Today’s guest post is by David Pountney, General Manager at DT Melbourne. 40 odd years ago David Ogilvy referred to direct mail as his “Secret Weapon”. The secret didn’t last long; once the marketing...
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Today’s guest post is by Mark Sareff, Chief Strategy Officer at Ogilvy Australia.Here are two blunt truths about marketing research (in all its forms):People in research don’t say what they mean and...
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