Day: May 7, 2006

“Why Don’t Ad Agencies Advertise?” is a simple question I’ve never considered. And it’s a remarkable to consider, even if it’s a deliberate overstatement. The author of the article is Simon Sinek, CEO of Sinek Partners (terrible, Flash-heavy website), which clearly is in the marketing field, but I can’t immediately discern why it is or…

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Via 43 Folders, I read David Sedaris’s essay Memento Mori in the New Yorker. Essentially, a wide-ranging riff, which includes a few paragraphs on the challenge of finding the perfect gift. Sedaris on the challenge: Hugh thinks that lists are the easy way out, and says that if I really knew him I wouldn’t have…

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