I also subscribe to Apple News+, so I’ll catch up on The Atlantic, Aperture, Texas Monthly, and Wired after.Īre there any resources that you typically turn to first when working on a brief? The Sunday New York Times is religion for me. I’ll listen to The Experiment, LeVar Burton Reads, or Flash Forward on Stitcher. There are big lessons there for any creative person out to create tension or surprise. I got a Masterclass subscription solely for her course on truth and activism in writing. My inbox ritual is TLDR by Dan, The Roundup from Otega Uwgaba, Creative Review, Anne Helen Peterson’s Substack, Robinhood Snacks, and whatever Rosie & Faris or their guest contributors have to say. I’m a maximalist, so I pour it on thick with creativity, culture, technology, systems, futures, and local news content.ĭuring the week, that’s mostly email newsletters and podcasts. The more you can connect and stack those behaviors, the yummier and more insightful your strategic and creative outcomes will be.įor me, that means taking in lots of little bites during the week and then getting lost down a few rabbit holes when I have pondering time. You’ve got to know how to move people, markets, companies, cultures.
Strategy is all about being good at behavior. What media do you consume that makes you better at your job or helps you think about strategy generally?
