It’s not a surefire hint for spotting AI writing — it’s annoying.
Words, human- or robot-generated, cannot describe how tired I am of the Surefire AI Tip-Off scavenger hunt. It’s as tedious as, say, the “It’s not [X] — it’s [Y]” construction …
The 2026 Creepy Awards Take a Dark Turn
I introduced the Creepy Awards (a companion piece to our annual Weepy Awards) in 2023 as a celebration of the weird-ass stuff many ad agencies crank out every year for …
Unrelated to Advertising: This is the time to examine your values.
God knows this isn’t a place I like to get loud or controversial, because Career, but some things are important enough to do it anyway: If you’ve been throwing your …
Anyone can be creative, and I sincerely mean that, please.
There is, and probably always has been, an epidemic of people thinking they aren’t and/or can’t be creative, and it sucks beyond the telling of it. It’s not specific to …