Legendary rapper and cannapreneur Snoop Dogg is steeped in all things Olympics at the moment–even his latest ad for BIC is themed to the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Snoop reunites with his close friend and longtime costar Martha Stewart for a commercial that has him awarding her a “10 out of 10″…Read More
Comedy is a powerful marketing tool, and many ad world mavens have long understood its intrinsic value as a clutter buster, brand builder and attention grabber. And in 2024, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity finally got hip to the rib-tickling genre, after at least a decade of handing out hardware disproportionately to weighty,…Read More
The best jugglers don’t seem to be trying very hard.
That’s because they understand what the work involves, and they don’t confuse effort with results.
Some approaches to keep in mind:
Focus on the work at hand
Don’t take on more than you can handle
Establish a spec, and ignore perfection
Throws are far more important than catches
Devote a significant amount of time to honing your craft
Consistently add incremental challenges
Frantic leads to more frantic. Let it drop and begin again.
That’s sort of an oxymoron.
The original figureheads were carved into the bow of a ship. They exist to express the spirit of the boat and to demonstrate its power and resilience.
Here’s an AI recreation of the most famous one:
The sailors were wise enough to understand that the purpose of a figurehead isn’t to steer the boat, trim the sails or do much of anything at all.
Now that most of us don’t sail in schooners, it’s possible we’ve lost the thread. When we organize around leaders, it’s easy to imagine that our goal is to have a thoughtful and resilient long-term thinker, who just happens to be the well-carved powerful avatar of our dreams.
It might be that we need one without getting the other.
Community requires individuals to have the option of speaking up. If we’re in this together, we ought to be able to chime in.
But while every member of the community can speak out, the ones that are heard also have something useful to say. Being informed is a requirement to be heard.
Sometimes, our insight can come from firsthand experience, but it’s most likely that we’ve learned about the issue and the alternatives we face.
Education is at the heart of the conversation. Organized schooling, substantial peer engagement and intelligent media consumption give us a chance to earn our opinion.
Successful communities celebrate learning.
The warm weather finally arrived! But before we begin to wind things down for the summer months, let’s catch up once more with the latest developments in Dutch tech. Of course, in our mind, the best news from the week that passed was our own TNW Conference taking place in Zaandam, just outside of Amsterdam. (Next year we are back at one of our favourite locations at NDSM island, grab your 2-for-1 tickets now!) This year featured some of the best keynote speakers and panellists in our 18-year history, along with rich networking opportunities and the signature festival feel that…
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If the Cannes Lions festival is anything, it’s a stage-setter for the rest of the year. In ADWEEK’s third and final episode of The Cannes Dispatch, the editorial team who worked the Croisette dig into the creative that won this year and what it means for the future of advertising. While DoorDash’s Super Bowl sweepstakes…Read More
Claims of the next fastest-charging EV have become so common, they’ve almost completely lost their meaning. But Nyobolt might just have something to brag about. The UK startup has successfully charged an EV from 10% to 80% in just four minutes and 37 seconds — just enough time to grab a coffee. Nyobolt achieved the feat at a race track in Bedford, England on Thursday, using its own specially designed electric sports car fitted with its own specially designed battery. The Cambridge University spin-out has tinkered with the chemistry of a standard lithium-ion battery to allow it to accept more electrical…
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Eindhoven-based startup Axelera has raised $68mn as it looks to take its AI chip business global. One of the lead investors is Samsung Catalyst, the venture arm of the semiconductor giant Samsung Electronics. Axelera is developing AI chips that enable computer vision and generative AI in edge devices like robots and drones. Because they’re located within the devices themselves, the AI chips can process data in milliseconds without the need to upload or download data to the cloud. This delivers high computing performance at a fraction of the cost and energy consumption of centralised AI models, said the startup. Axelera…
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Lynn Conway may hold the record for longest delay between being unfairly fired and receiving an apology for it. In 1968, IBM — a company that now covers its logo in a rainbow flag each June for Pride Month — fired Conway when she expressed her intention to transition. She died on June 9, 2024 at age 86. IBM eventually apologised to the now-famous computing expert, but only 52 years later, when Conway was 82 years old. Although Conway’s start as a trans woman while at IBM was inauspicious, she quickly found a new job under her post-transition name and…
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