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https://newatlas.com/wearables/seekr-blind-ai-wearable/ Today she had it set to mindful, not playlist. She liked the locational music setting – the jazz one when she was in Soho was her favourite. But, no, today she wanted something more meditative. The seamless remix of soothing noise and the ambient sounds of couples laughing and… Read the rest

https://adage.com/article/opinion/how-gen-z-reshaping-agency-workplace-culture/2593656 It’s a cool office. Lots of people my age. In fact we’re the ones that are always here. We don’t have big houses to set up home offices so we come in. I don’t mind, why use my heating? Might as well be here. It means we get to… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/648046c1-7fcd-43fb-819b-841f104396d9 She’d lost track of how many design sprints she’d been a part of: classic five day ones, half day and longer ones. Every possibility had been explored. The company was a great believer in design thinking. The infinity symbol was almost a company logo. The iterative process of prototyping… Read the rest

https://adage.com/article/list/ai-where-data-finally-meets-creativity/2593641 They come. They go. They change everything. They only have a limited tenure so they want to make an “impact”. Quarterly reporting hangs over them like the Sword of Damocles so they charge in with the “revolutionary” plans they pitched at interview. They bring their teams with them: their… Read the rest

https://adage.com/article/marketing-news-strategy/why-experiential-marketing-will-dominate-2025/2592521 We knew when we found out we were expecting that we wanted to go back. We’d moved during the big reset and life in a sleepy village is great when you’re a young couple. But when we were set to be three, we knew we needed to be back… Read the rest

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/jaguar-new-branding-cars-donald-trump It was his call. He could press the button or not. He almost wished his agency didn’t have a human making the decision. The agency prided itself on its hybrid teams. He looked at the ad again and could see what humans had done and what their partners had… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/taking-a-cue-from-x-threads-tests-ai-powered-summaries-of-trending-topics/ I don’t have time to keep up with it. And, don’t tell anyone, but I don’t like it. It’s overwhelming, so many conversations, trends, memes and just… stuff. You have to keep up otherwise people think you’re odd. It’s not just the stuff you post yourself, it’s knowing what… Read the rest

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/11/22/ai_pcs_productivity/ He stared at the screen. A digital blank page. He was blank too. Frozen. The cursor blinked rhythmically, a metronome. Nothing. No ideas. No thing. The screen adjusted its temperature looking to warm up the room. He noticed the shift but nothing moved. The playlist changed in response to… Read the rest

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/20/1107100/ai-can-now-create-a-replica-of-your-personality/ He’d always wanted to put his values into the business. It was a cliché maybe but even when it was a startup and he was in those interminable meetings with VCs, he’d tried to get his values onto the agenda. That was a long time ago and now it… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/instagram-will-soon-let-you-reset-your-recommendation-algorithm/ She needed a Reset. She’d already reached the stage where she realised the relationship was never going to work. It wasn’t good for her. It was impacting her mental health. It wasn’t going anywhere. It had to go. A complete break. That realisation, that decision had started her thinking… Read the rest