You’re Not Crazy!

Show Notes

From Clinique to Kraft, how TikTok became a kingmaker of brands for Gen Z.

“The Mourning After: A Roundtable.”
(Essay on the Death of Painting)

Gerd-Günter Voß's three conducts of life.

Branding In The Age Of Agility: How Marketers Can ‘Agilify’ Their Brands.

Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning.

“All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.” — Marx

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.

Venkatesh Rao, “Charnel Vision.”

Marc Andreessen, “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.”

WTF Happened In 1971?

Financialization.

“Today, Newell Brands is the exclusive provider of genuine Ball® home canning products.”

Ball Corporation.

Citizens United v. FEC.

A Shimmery Pink Starbucks Stanley Cup Is Coming To Target This January.

The Morphology of a Humorous Phrase: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

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Mark Kingsley, Universal Principles of Branding:
100 Key Concepts for Defining, Building, and Delivering Brands.

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SVA Masters in Branding program.

Music courtesy of Mikel Rouse.

Dr. Tom Guarriello.

Mark Kingsley.

Melinda Welch.