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Irwin, Bob, Frank, Placido, and Aretha from 2023-12-11T03:00
Irwin Michnick, the Brooklyn-born son of a Jewish furrier from Ukraine, was a jazz musician who wrote radio commercials and advertising jingles for companies like L & M...
ListenThe Two Times We Read Don Quixote from 2023-12-04T03:00
Back in 2012, Ze Frank recorded a video I’ve contemplated for 11 years.
“What was it about?”
The hero and the clown.
“What made it so interesting that you’ve contemplated it ...
ListenNot Everything is Scalable from 2023-11-27T03:00
Ninety percent of motorcycle riders who attempt this corner at 100 mph crash and die, so 9% of riders who attempt it at 10 mph will also crash and die, right?
The fact that you answered si...
ListenThe Purpose of Poetry from 2023-11-20T03:00
Poetry is not limited to poets.
When you
1. say more
2. in fewer words,
you are being poetic.
Pithy, insightful statements are poetry.
Frederik Pohl was not...
ListenThe Function of Fiction from 2023-11-13T03:00
Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems.
“Like a flight simulator, fiction projects us into intense simulations of problems that ru...
ListenThe Power and Danger of Relational Marketing from 2023-11-06T03:00
Beautiful people know they are beautiful.
Smart people know they are smart.
Rich people know they are rich.
You don’t need to tell them.
If you speak about surface qualit...
ListenPortals and How to Use Them from 2023-10-30T03:00
Portals are openings that lead from one place to another.
The best screenwriters, novelists, poets, and ad writers use portals when they want their readers, listeners, and viewers to fol...
ListenThe Third Vanderbilt from 2023-10-23T03:00
I bought an old oil painting. It’s not a large painting or an important one, but it came from the private collection of the founder of the Whitney Museum.
I bought it because I’ve always a...
ListenHow to Attract and Hold Attention: Death and Life for the Cognoscenti from 2023-10-16T03:00
It is easy to attract attention:
Predictability is death. Spontaneity is life.
Day and night, left and right,
timid and bold, young and old,
up and down, smile and fr...
ListenThe Underdog Phenomenon from 2023-10-09T03:00
Most of us cheer for the little dog that doesn’t have a chance. The underdog.
We like them because they need us.
Underdogs are those little dogs that rise above their circumstances a...
ListenUseful and Ornamental Wordplay from 2023-10-02T03:00
My novelist friend, Brad Whittington and I share a deep and abiding love for the colorful canvases of Robertson Davies, a Canadian writer who paints pictures in the mind.
"Oho, now I know ...
ListenYour Low Conversion Rate on Pay-Per-Click from 2023-09-25T03:00
When I was growing up, I could never change the opinion of my mother by saying, “But everyone else is doing it.”
My mom had the courage and confidence to believe that Everyone Else’s mothe...
ListenThe Video Game of Life from 2023-09-18T03:00
Too much to do, too little time. First you are interrupted; then the interruption is interrupted. Does that ever happen to you?
Me, too.
Surrounded by frantic, breathless, rapid dist...
ListenLiving in the Nick of Time from 2023-09-11T03:00
You cut a nick into a stick to mark a moment. Then, at the end of the time being measured, you make another nick.
To do a thing at the last possible moment is to do it within that second n...
ListenAre You Sure You Want to be Famous? from 2023-09-04T03:00
A friend rotated my brain toward the subject of fame.
He aimed my eyes in a new direction when he said, “Do you remember that thing you sent me 10 or 15 years ago?”
I gave him the ...
ListenThe Price of Intimacy from 2023-08-28T03:00
The comedian Mark Russell said you can judge a generation by its magazines.
Life magazine was first published in 1883. It was followed by
P...
ListenHow Does Advertising Work? from 2023-08-21T03:00
I have a friend who is a famous online marketer. Last week he sent me an observation I found interesting. It occurred to me that you might find it interesting as well.
“Now that targeting ...
ListenIs Your Ladder Too Short? from 2023-08-14T03:00
I meet with dozens of people each year who tell me how they grew their companies to an impressive size, but then the growth slowed down. And then it stopped. They can see a lot more business out...
ListenAdvice From an Old Man from 2023-08-07T03:00
I often share memories of wise old men who gave me good advice.
I have a grandchild turning 17 today, so I will play the part of the old man.
The person I am advising is you.
... Listen
What it Means to be Average from 2023-07-31T03:00
The first half of what I’m about to tell you, I have told you before. But you will understand why I chose to repeat it when you read the second half. – RHW
The average person has 5 sense...
ListenChatterton and Rowley from 2023-07-24T03:00
Everything I’m about to share with you happened in England and France during the lifetime of Thomas Jefferson, while America still had its Listen
Don’t Worry. Be Happy. from 2023-07-17T03:00
You cannot suffer the past or future because they do not exist. What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination.
Friend, you are not a good worrier, so you might as well quit....
ListenWhat, then, is Love? from 2023-07-10T03:00
When a thought knocks politely on the door of my mind, I open the door and entertain the thought. But when an unseen thought shines into my mind through a skylight, I am always startled by the m...
ListenOur Hunger for Relationship from 2023-07-03T03:00
We have a need to belong. We want to be seen and heard. We want to be missed when we are not around. We want to have genuine connection. This is the basis of relational ad writing.
Never h...
ListenReap the Whirlwind from 2023-06-26T03:00
It would appear that journalists can no longer see clearly or talk plainly. They hand you something twisted and bent and assure you that it is straight.
Propaganda hangs thick in the air a...
ListenMosquitoes Trapped in Amber from 2023-06-19T03:00
Do you remember that scene in Jurassic Park when the park’s founder revealed that he had extracted the blood of a dinosaur from a mosquito trapped in fossilized tree sap?
<... ListenPatrick and the Supreme Court from 2023-06-12T03:00
There are places in geography.
There are places in the heart.
There are places in time.
Where shall we start?
– Indy Beagle
Places in Geography: Listen
Criticism and Encouragement from 2023-06-05T03:00
She is dead now and so is he.
He was a friend of mine; lean, rangy, and muscular.
She was his mother. “You’re getting fat,” is what she told him, right up until the day he died. Listen
The Source of Our Culture War from 2023-05-29T03:00
William Shakespeare, wearing the mask of an imaginary Prince of Denmark – Hamlet by name – suggested that human knowledge is limited.