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The100: Pneuma, unknown unknowns and batty geniuses
Advertise or not to advertise There’s much debate about whether budgets should be cut. Do we market (research) our way out of this crisis or is everyone right to stop? …
The100: Search listening, strategy and Le Whopper
This is not a debate Marco Del Valle spent 30 days interviewing some of the best debaters to see how we could improve strategy. Many debaters use the HEEL structure for …
The100: Creativity laws, strategy and marmots
Firstly, before we get started, a short notice: if you work with independent qual researchers then please read this – we know things aren’t easy at present, so we’re trying to …
The100: Powerful videos, the trio of doom, and hypnagogic jerks
Knights of conference-style seating For millions of years, humans or even higher primates have sat around in circles to discuss things. There’s a reason we call them the knights of …
The100: Anthropocentrism, the ‘right’ mistakes and monks
Monk Mode Modern work is a mess. Or, as Bruce Daisley, ex-European VP of Twitter, would say: modern work is a lie. Just try not to put your neck out …
The100: Starting over, deliberative rhetoric & heartprints
I quit By this point in the year many people have waved the white flag to their resolutions. Their hands full of retrieved chocolates. The still squeaking running shoes are …
The100: Thinking fast, harbingers of failure & ice cream
Trender bender Little known fact: if you laid all the pages of all the 2020 trend reports published to date, end to end, they would circle the earth. Twice. Helpfully, …
Best of The100: Strategy, storytelling and leftovers
Back in the hot seat. And after a week of not eating leftover cheese and chocolate for breakfast, I’m feeling good. And lighter. For the first The100 of the year, …
The100: Behavioural science, Haha, Aha & Cheetos
Be a fool Justin Lines spoke recently about how comedians can help us reveal better insights. Because Haha is far closer to Aha than you think. Comedians have to warm …
The100: A.I., Disney’s mindsets and Ben Affleck
Behold the Sky Rabbits! (Alleged) AI and some of its applications are snake oil. Sold as a remedy for something-or-other but having no real benefit or worth. That’s what Arvind …
The100: dotcom bubbles, newstalgia and plastic elephants
Messing with the magic Snip. Snip. Snip. Snip. The slithers of rope tethering online advertising to any form of respectability are gradually being severed. $5 to anyone who can read …
The100: Thick data, the gray tsunami and spirit animals
Rebranding data Canvas8 has been asking global tech ethnographer Tricia Wang for her tuppenceworth on why thick data makes big data more valuable. There’s this belief that anything that is measurable …
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