Month: April 2016
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"The Girlfriend Experience" – A Skillful But Terrible Personal Brand Playbook
I’ve been watching Steven Soderberg’s The Girlfriend Experience. It is a show soaked in sex. But really it’s about branding’s stock-in-trade – how well some people trade money for fantasy, how they anticipate and fulfill those deep dark desires inside our heads. Christine, the main character in GFE, is more than a commodity, she is a brand. They don’t […]
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We Will Be Great Anyway
We may argue over who is most qualified to lead. We may engage one another warily on Facebook. We may be horrified by the nature of the cruelty and the suffering we often face. But we will be great anyway. We are a nation built on impossible dreams. We stand on the shoulders of those […]
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Love Is The Strongest Weapon
“The only sustainable way to fight back against those who seek to divide us is to create a world where understanding and empathy can spread faster than hate.” – Facebook founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg Recently Mark Zuckerberg took a lot of heat for seeming to suggest that we could somehow simply “love-bomb” terrorism out of existence. […]
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Super Rich: Smart or Stupid?
“Secret Lives of the Super Rich” is my new TV addiction because I get to, number one, vicariously live a filthy rich life and, number two, imagine that I could duplicate how they actually did it. This week I watched an episode with luxury yachts, luxury cars, luxury homes and an entire home that is […]
2016 Diary - Dannielle Blumenthal 