Northern Irishman, Director in a big-ish tech firm. watch enthusiast. ex-Uber + a bunch of other startups. working separately on an early hypothesis in mobility
In the event of a UK wide emergency it seems I am on the perish list - 15:00 came and went, and I’m entirely unbothered by the fact I received nothing.
Visiting post-pandemic London has made it abundantly clear that the the decline of US cities into lawlessness and squalor was not an inevitable consequence of the pandemic; It was a policy choice. – at London, England
It’s nearly 30 years since the development of the web, which created the world’s biggest companies and whose business models were advertising based. Yet advertising was so much more creative before the web. What happened?
Maybe I should pitch a talk at Cannes Lions called.
"How can we make some-what good digital ads"
It would cover crazy stuff like
- Why don't we use nice imagery
- How about ads have an idea
- Couldn't we use art direction to make them look interesting
- Try using good copy?
France and Germany now looking to join Italy in banning ChatGPT rather than focusing on how to build their own AI industry. This is what terminal cultural decline looks like. Not with a bang but a bureaucracy.