Agency going hybrid after all? What a great idea! (Part 2 of 2)
I’m both grateful and touched that last week’s post definitely convinced you to keep your agency at least partly remote even after the pandemic winds down. (I mean, of course …
Smelly, oppositional misfits: How not to neurodiversity
As someone with a deep and personal interest in neurodiversity in the advertising industry, I was stoked to see an article by the founders of Motto about the value of …
Agency going back to the office full time? What if you, like, didn’t? (Part 1 of 2)
This is, admittedly, a pretty boring post, and unfortunately, it’s going to be followed by another pretty boring post, but I promise the post after that will be fun and …
Dear Baby Creatives: Advertising movies aren’t real life
Dear Baby Creatives, I mean, of course advertising movies aren’t real life. They’re movies. (If you haven’t grasped that fictional movies are fiction, you’ve got bigger issues than ad industry …
Storytime: Neurodiversity and the ad industry
Good lord, this was a tough one to write. Also a long one. Because it’s talking about neurodiversity, which can be a tough subject, and a personal one, and one …
Remote work and creativity: I mean, like, yeah
Nuclear-powered introvert though I am, I’m happy (or was, at least, pre-pandemic) to visit clients’ offices for meetings and creative sessions. I even have, on occasion, worked in those offices …
Gettin’ on up there: Ageism in advertising
I had a fun post planned for this week, in observance of my birthday on Sunday. I was going to throw way back to my own times as a baby …
Please don’t ditch your internship program just ‘cause there’s a raging pandemic
Well, that escalated quickly. And by “that,” I mean COVID-19 numbers. Back in March, expectations for July frequently involved tentatively returning to work on modified schedules, taking socially distanced vacations, …
Signal boost: Getting there, but not quite there, on industry commitments to BLM
In the weeks since the first marches protesting against the extrajudicial execution of George Floyd (and there will be weeks to come — this is a marathon, not a sprint), …
So you’re going to be working remote (whether you want to or not): Tips for workers and agencies
From the first tourist who came back from vacation with a suitcase full of the novel coronavirus, people of all scientific and non-scientific stripes have been speculating as to how …