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Comment on From Business to Betterness by The Economy Street Art Project « Lost in Grey Matter

The Economy Street Art Project « Lost in Grey Matter — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:18:34 +0000

[...] if not, downright irrelevant measurement of our prosperity. I’ve talked about this in several posts, but I think Haque’s recent ebook, Betterness, sums up the dilemma we are facing as a [...]

Comment on Aziz Ansari on the Future of Media by Christian Gani

Christian Gani — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:29:58 +0000

Aziz…stop talking and eating man. Grossing me out.

Comment on The Brands We Drive by Jake Thomas

Jake Thomas — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:31:44 +0000

Totally agree. A cross-cultural look would be interesting, as well. My guess is that you’d find less of the masculine sentiments like “aggression” and “power.” But, who knows. As a former automotive brand guy, I’m curious about how you approached these gender disparities from a communication standpoint.

Comment on The Brands We Drive by Christian Gani

Christian Gani — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:28:51 +0000

Having lived abroad for a few years I’d love to see a similar study done for Europe. It’s always fascinated me that Europeans, as passionate as they are about performance, place a higher value on small/efficient/environmental vehicles as opposed to our obsession here in this country with sedan’s and SUV’s.

Comment on Television and Our Connection to the Anti-Hero by drush76

drush76 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:10:25 +0000

["Simply put, modern day society, characterized by more and more divergent beliefs, norms, interests, systems and powerful countries has naturally lead to societal problems of increasing complexity."]

Complex societal problems have been around for centuries. It’s nothing new. What’s new is that we’re finally starting to acknowledge this and stop viewing our society in a black-and-white manner.

Comment on What does the Instagram buy say about our culture? by Christian Gani

Christian Gani — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:32:59 +0000

What your mising here (said with a great deal of sarcasm) is that today’s economy operates on a level that defys convention. On what planet does an application that’s essentially a photography filtration system command $1B? This one. It’s loopy, so much so, that one day we’ll look back at this and laugh at the seemingly endless line of small, entrepreneurial digi-panies that are gobbled up by entities like FB and Google. Except those that sell will be laighing harder. The comparison to the NYT’s however isn’t exactly fair but seems relevant in terms of how our “value of information” is now so drastically off kilter.

Comment on Sweden’s Lunch Beat by smallapplebites

smallapplebites — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:16:26 +0000

This…rocks!

Comment on Sir Ken Robinson and the Future of Education by pm

pm — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:12:01 +0000

Agreed! Glad to find someone who understands that logic is not fully developed in a small child. If adults were as “creative” as 5 year olds, we would be putting m&m’s up our noses.

Comment on From Business to Betterness by Christian Gani

Christian Gani — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:07:18 +0000

I like your careful wording as it relates to Apple and betterness. They’ve certainly been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons of late but seem to have an impenetrable wall around the towers of Cupertino. Nice write up, I’ll dive into the book soon.

Comment on This Is How The Future of Retail Looks by Christian Gani

Christian Gani — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:23:36 +0000

I’m often chastised for appreciating process, especially in developing something creative. But 718C has clearly realized that there are (more than) a few of us out there that enjoy the story, and want desperately to participate in the creation of something special. I applaud them for being more focused on this aspect of total ownership versus being driven by volume and profits – although I have no idea whether this type of bike creation is any less profitable then the former. In fact – it’s likely the opposite.

Great find.