by Mark O'Brien | Apr 2, 2018
We have to wonder at the pandemic extent to which our gullibility is running rampant when even the Easter Bunny falls for the notion that we might actually celebrate Easter on April Fool’s Day. We have to wonder. But we can’t be surprised. Consider just...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 26, 2018
If you don’t think the world is coming to an end soon — or, at the very least, that the world economy will be reduced to smoking rubble by automation — it’s only because you haven’t read this article in Harvard Business Review (HBR): “Why the...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 20, 2018
Today is the first day of Spring. But in case you’ve been away from The Weather Channel for a while, global warming has made it a rough year so far in New England. And we may get another six to twelve inches of heat wave dumped on us in the next 24 hours. Here...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 19, 2018
I often fantasize about being in the first meetings about things. The notion occurred to me originally when I took my inaugural drive across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. I imagined that first meeting in which the attendees tried to figure out a way to get cars...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 12, 2018
One of my LinkedIn connections shared an article over the weekend. Entitled, “What matters in advertising this year”, it reminded me that it takes some people longer to see things coming than it takes others. Let’s refer to such people as Group A....
