The STEM era is over. For twenty years we’ve experienced the denigration of the liberal arts. For twenty years we’ve been ruled by tech. For twenty years it’s been about entrepreneurship. Now it’s about thinking. About concepts. About ideas. Not changing the world with products, but analysis and influence. You can’t compete with the billionaires, […]

You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard Some that you recognize, some that you’ve hardly even heard of “Celluloid Heroes” The Kinks Paul McCartney did not write that, but he did cowrite one of the Stones’ very first hits, “I Wanna Be Your Man,” and Marc Maron started off asking […]

Eric Church: The Defiant One “Back In Black” was “the most important thing to happen to me as a young man.” What is “popular”? It certainly ain’t what it used to be. The music industry runs on the past, even though when done right the music it purveys pushes the envelope, arguably, that’s what’s wrong […]

It’s not 2005 anymore, certainly not 2010, virality is dead, bubbling up from the bottom doesn’t exist, and the big get bigger. For a while there it looked like Madison Avenue was faltering. And if you follow the ad biz, you’ll see that the agencies are challenged, fearful of being cut out by the middlemen, […]