How to ask for help
Anyone who’s never been reluctant — scared, even — to ask for help when you need it can just cruise on past this post. For anyone who’s not a filthy …
DBC Reader Question: How do you write about boring stuff?
I’m here for your, Baby Creatives. I’m here to answer your questions, soothe your nerves, and give you the benefit of my [hrumph]teen years’ experience in the industry. And that’s …
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, …