The CEO of an AI chip company said the quiet part out loud at a conference in June.

This is a company that cannot afford to miss, betting enormous money and creative capital to manufacture the cultural relevance it used to generate on its own.

Nike just went all in on the World Cup.Six minutes of film. More than thirty celebrities. Ronaldo, Mbappé, Haaland, Kim Kardashian, LeBron, Channing Tatum, all sharing the same fake movie set. Trade press mostly loved it. Craft, ambition, easter eggs...

Forget the magic systems. Forget the experts trying to sell you on their one weird trick. Keep everything you’re doing exactly the same. Just double your list.

I just left a 250-call funeral home in Chicagoland. Fourth generation, family-run, strong community brand. She’s doing a couple hundred thousand dollars in pre-need annually and selling every contract herself. Three people running the whole operation...

Not in it. On it.There’s a difference, and most funeral home owners haven’t stopped long enough to feel it.I had some PTO last week. I spent the afternoon thinking strategically about what’s in front of me. No calls, no interruptions, no reactive noi...

The funeral profession is uniquely unforgiving in this regard.

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Hi ,“the walk out to my car that dreary night was the loneliest walk of my life.”“i had no idea where i might go.”“i was in a haze. groping for just enough clarity so that I could get myself home safely. even though at that moment, i couldn’t ev...

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Hi ,Here's my weekly podcast update for August 15th, 2022...@jc_ashworthLooking for a simple way to change your strategy and produce more sales? Here's my idea after passing a lemonade stand the other day...-John :) 5:08 PM · Aug 13, 2022View on Twit...

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