[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…

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 -…

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…

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…

[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…

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…

We recently published our Genius Steals annual report open letter to everyone over on Medium, because that's the place where you do those things. It covers a lot of things we've thought about this year. About how having an exit strategy as an entrepreneur means building a company you don't want to work at. It's…

  Campaign asked me to write a piece about the future for a technology supplement. They didn't say how far…. Cybernetics: the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things’. Faris Yakob imagines a world where science and technology live within you You wake up with that bleary post-drinking feeling…

 Last year I was invited to give the President's Lecture for the Berlin School Of Creative Leadership, which I was pretty stoked about because I was following in the footsteps of luminaries including David Droga, Jean Marie Dru, Cindy Gallup, Bob Pittman, Martin Sorrell and John Hegarty.  Just before my talk, the lovely Faculty Director David…

Earlier this month I did a webinar for the lovely people at the World Advertising Research Council about attention, rounding out a half year of touring my book Paid Attention, which has seen the talk I give evolve considerably, as the conversations have evolved around attention and ad blocking.  You can watch it on the site…