There’s so much to admire in this. Where to begin? First off, the way it kicks against outdoor porn in the first few seconds, going from a wispy vocal song to hardcore thrash metal. Then you’ve got the wonderful mash-up, using (deep breath)… — animated cartoons — videogames — weather reports — documentary (hello Aron Ralston) — user-generated content — medical X-rays — allegory (Death chasing a runner) And finally… — a product demo. Plus what a wonderful script: “Mother Nature can be a real motherf… That’s why Columbia engineers everything we make from anything nature can throw at you.” Topped by the superb endline, which might have been written by a copywriter with 50 years’ experience or a dope-smoking 17-year-old on day release: Engineered for Whatever. (From Paddy Gilmore's newsletter)

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I used three words that I routinely used in talks, and that I had thought about for a long time before selecting for frequent repetition in my book on dieting. I thought they helped simplify a complex idea. I was horrified that morning to realize that my three carefully chosen words could be mistaken for terrible diet advice if you plucked them out of the sentences they were in. I urged people to strive for their “leanest livable weight.” It looked like I was recommending that people diet until their weight was so low they could just barely cling to life. Did I mean that? Absolutely not. If anything, I meant close to the opposite.

Don't Get Vaccinated funeral home truck - during Covid

The original short story about drawing seven red lines

Wondering how big, small, tall, long, fast, heavy, or old something is? The Measure of Things is a tool to help you understand physical quantites in terms of things you (or your audience, or your readers) are already familiar with. Need a metaphor to emphasize a written measurement? Try including a comparison to the size of a whale, or the height of the Empire State Building, or the area of a tennis court. Need to understand how big a metric or English unit really is? Try comparing it to real, tangible objects.

Sir Humphrey, incensed that Hacker is pushing ahead with his “Grand Design”, delivers a masterclass in how to conduct a government opinion poll.

social marketing Eurovision song

Broadly, these feedback surveys can be categorised into five groups: the pointless; the self-important; the immoral; the demanding; and the downright weird:

awful example of landing page!

“If being purposeful means doing ads to you, then you’re probably doing it wrong.”

Almost everything you need to know about writing, reading, submitting, and understanding satire and humor.

In Wales road signs are written in both English and Welsh. However the Welsh text actually reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated”

what does my job entail? (describes social marketing)

the importance of clear instructions

He told me his First Rule of Consulting: No matter how much you try, you can’t stop people from sticking beans up their nose... Time and time again, I come across situations where I think, “OMG! They are trying to stick beans up their nose!” It explains what’s happening and what I should do next. The only thing I can do in a beans-and-noses situation (notice my clever use of flight-attendant grammar forms?) is wait. Wait until the bean is in its final resting place. Then, with a calmness only seen in yoga instructors, I can turn to the nose owner and ask, “So, how is that working for you? Did it do everything you’d hoped?” Of course, if they answer they enjoyed it and it was wonderful, then they are not someone I can relate to or help in any way. However, if sticking a bean deep into their nostril doesn’t meet the very high expectations they’d had, I can now start talking alternative approaches to reaching those expectations.