Who should be the role models for today’s young men? This essay covers a lot of ground, from Tom Cruise to Vladimir Putin, from Steve Jobs to Queen Elizabeth, from Jesus to Harry Styles, and from lions to unicorns.

I'm really enjoying the challenge of writing 150-word pieces for Medium publication The Shortform. This one is about whether "The Man" is still an effective metaphor.

The genie is out of the AI bottle, and one question that marketers and brand managers should be asking themselves is: Can AI really do things better than humans?

Time after time, we hear from CEOs, life coaches, TED talkers, and people who want us to listen to them, how excited they are. But more often than not, those people don’t look very excited.

Democracy is all about giving power to the people. But when we hear the word "democratization" these days, it often has less to do with politics and everything to do with software.

Concerns about AI have often been tinged with eschatological fears, but in recent years they seem to be escalating.

Are there two popular apparel brands more diametrically opposed than Canada Goose and Shein?

When I heard the details of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse, my brand antennae went ding ding ka-ching…

Brands and advertisements are political. They always have been.

Do you create for a living? If you do, you had better create some awareness of what AI can and can’t do. It may seem like artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for our jobs. What’s the solution if you’re a designer, copywriter or musician? Prompts and filters.

Labels really matter. It’s important to use terminology correctly when it comes to politics and social injustices, otherwise people who want to maintain existing power structures find it too easy to rally support around false equivalencies.

When it comes to issues regarding what’s best for society, freedom is a zero-sum game. Which is where the problems start…

How accountable should a “generation” be held? A generation is not a coherent entity. It’s a marketing category. It’s a sociological rule of thumb.

We hear so much talk of toxic masculinity (and we absolutely need more action to prevent male violence against women) but the overarching problem is a system called patriarchy…

Many English soccer fans are now forced to either jump through mental hoops to justify their continuing support or double down in denial of ties to evil deeds.

Species go extinct all the time. Over 99% of the species that have ever lived on Earth have disappeared, never to return. That’s just how evolution works.

What’s good about the metaverse is that its inhabitants don’t need bread and oil to survive.

What’s bad about the metaverse is that you can’t inhabit it if you’re starving or freezing…

Tech is changing how we live at an accelerated pace; the left and right are meeting at conspiracy crossroads; the pandemic has disrupted what once was normal; the very planet we live on is simultaneously burning and drowning.

Mars is the America’s sixth-largest privately owned corporation, so when it revealed a makeover of its famous M&M mascots there was bound to be some controversy.