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Every two weeks I write about culture, brands, creativity and technology. This issue covers: Zero Waste ♻️ Imperfection 💔 Other Voices 🗣 The Quickening 🚀 Perspective 🤔 Happy Christmas y'all 🎅🎄. Upstream #179 open.substack.com/pub/upstream/p…

Latest and greatest Featuring: - the rise of counter-culture - zombie brands - cultural and creative stagnation - exponential AI momentum Upstream #176, by @up_agents open.substack.com/pub/upstream/p…

Latest and greatest on culture, brands, creativity and technology. Upstream #174, by @up_agents open.substack.com/pub/upstream/p…

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Latest and greatest - Upstream #170 Featuring: barbie-heat, effort + care, business unusual, safe space, hak. upstream.substack.com/p/upstream-170…

Latest and greatest - Upstream #167 Featuring thoughts on: small, resuscitation, amara’s law, sugarless cake, it's probably me. open.substack.com/pub/upstream/p…

Latest and greatest Upstream #166. Featuring: dead words, ineffable, miners, ketchup, kenneth. upstream.substack.com/p/upstream-166…

Latest and greatest Upstream #165 This one covers: old farts, signals, carless, wanderfail, slomo. #culture #brands #creativity #technology upstream.substack.com/p/upstream-165…

Latest and greatest - Upstream #164 🧠 This one covers → faith → hyperconnectivity → AI → martech → creativity → wonder → ideas. upstream.substack.com/p/upstream-164

Latest issue of Upstream #163 This issue we cover: self esteem, world building, search 3.0, let loose and fred again. #culture #brand #creativity #technology upstream.substack.com/p/upstream-163

Latest and greatest - upstream #162 This week we discuss: rational vs irrational thinking, the importance of time with new products, the meh-taverse, Dick Fosbury and Damon Albarn. open.substack.com/pub/upstream/p…

Latest and greatest Upstream #161 Thoughts about culture, brands, technology and creativity - featuring beautifully ugly, values, the big blur, dreams and noseriding. upstream.substack.com/p/upstream-161…

Latest and greatest - Upstream #160 upstream.substack.com/p/upstream-160…

Americans over 50 are doing extreme sports their grandparents never imagined washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

Latest and greatest. Upstream #159. featuring: it's mental, brilliant basics, sea squirt, imagineers and hi ren. open.substack.com/pub/upstream/p…

Latest and greatest Upstream #158 climavores and men, waffle balance, it’s getting personal, make an effort. upstream.substack.com/p/upstream-158…

Personalisation is a tactic, relevance is the strategy the-media-leader.com/personalisatio… via @TheMediaLeader

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