Genius Steals
talent imitates, Faris writes
Year: 2016
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I wrote what appears to be a a year in review essay but is in fact my attempt to explore how toxic nostalgia culture built the foundations for 2016 by hooking society on the Golden Age fallacy. It's over on Medium – for that the place for such thots [thots thots thots] – would love…
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We just wrapped the second phase of a content project we've been working on for BOX.COM on the Future of Work. As part of it, Rosie and I [and other contributors] have written pieces over on their Blueprint publication, several of which were selected for the front page of Medium, which was nice. To…
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Back in the mid 2000s a lot of planners starting blogging and meeting each other online, mostly inspired by Russell Davies' pioneering blog. It was an exciting time, as the community found itself, started talking, trying to imagine a future, grabbgin drinks with people all over the world, just because of blogs and that. The word…
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Public speaking for agencies, conferences, corporate events (and all sorts of things where the organizer would like their audience not to be bored) is not just a significant part of our business, but one of our favorite types of work at Genius Steals. We've spoken at Google, Mashable, IAB [Spain, Mexico, USA, Norway, Sweden], ADC, SXSW,…
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[This is a handmade piece you can buy on Etsy for 10 bucks, hopefully they think of this as an ad] Years ago the International Journal of Advertising asked me to write a column called Ex Libris about books that inspired me, and I've done it a few times since. Here is my bumper Summer…
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GENIUS/STEALS presents Beyond Boring Briefs (Teaser) from rosie yakob The webinar was a hit! We had more than 1500 sign up and the software hit maximum capacity. We've had a lot of requests for the deck. [Reminder – this deck is a part of our workshop on better briefing called Briefs Against Humanity -…
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My mate Julia Roy has a new podcast series called How We Work Now in which we she interviews people about working in new ways and now they get things done. The first series is interviewing writers and she kindly asked me to do one about Paid Attention and how we work while living on…
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I'm giving the closing keynote at the Social Fresh Conference in Orlando – you should come if you do social stuff – ticket sales close August 12th. If you are coming, come say hello – I'm on right before the cocktail reception on Saturday, which is awesome. The opening keynote speaker is the excellent Mitch…
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[from an art curation blog where it was posted without attribution] I'm judging the New Category at the London International Awards this year. It's always the hardest thing to judge, as everyone who has been on the jury says, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the pieces are all entirely different, in form and scale, making like…
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The lovely people at WARC have asked me to do another webinar and we hatched the idea to do one on briefs. At Genius Steals, one of the workshops we do is called Briefs Against Humanity, because so many briefs are basically fill-in-the-blanks madlibs and it's cruel and unusual. This webinar will be some elements from…