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Dating, Apps, and Communication on the Interwebs

by Sean | Mar 17, 2016 | Business, Community, Design, Marketing, Product, Product, Pschyology, Tech, UX

Online dating is shitty. If you haven’t tried it, believe me. It’s full of spam, half assed responses, and rude behavior. The stakes are really low, and it’s easy to forget that there is an actual person on the other side of that screen.  I have yet...

Rule Number 6

by Sean | Mar 11, 2016 | Business, Entrepreneur, Happiness, Mindfulness, Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Productivity, Pschyology, Storytelling

A few weeks ago, during Seth Godin’s Leadership Workshop, I was introduced to Rule Number 6. Benjamin Zander, the man who coined the term, does a great job of explaining the rule here: Every day something happens in our lives that threatens to destroy...

Vote With Your Dollars

by Sean | Mar 11, 2016 | Business, business ethics, Conscious Capitalism, Economics, Marketing

Every time you swipe your credit card you’re voting. The corporations that dominate our economy care about one thing – dollars. So every dollar you spend is a vote for the society you want to live in. In a market economy corporations react to consumer...

The Others (thoughts on marketing and genocide)

by Sean | Feb 26, 2016 | Government, Marketing, Propaganda, Sri Lanka, Storytelling

Every genocide begins with marketing. Before a government can begin the extermination of a group of people, they have to get buy in from the masses. They have to convince soldiers that by pulling the trigger they are improving the world. Every genocide of the last...
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