Carlos Castaneda and the Scary Park Guy.

No, Carlos isn’t in the ad business and it’s been years since I read his work, but he had one idea that’s stayed with me and any company needing new thinking should embrace. In the story, Don Juan is giving advice to someone with a poorly behaved...

An Ad Guy sells out.

I sold out. I sold The Ad Ranch. My baby. My ad agency. That thing that defined who the hell I was (well, kinda). I had the agency for more than a dozen years. A dozen years. A dozen years. Had to repeat that. For an Ad Guy, that is several centuries. We Ad Guys have...

The neverending pursuit of The Best Stuff.

I love great design. And so does the whole world. Look at Apple. They’ve done very well competing in a business where everyone thought the cheapest would win. But they approached the market with the idea of making truly beautifully designed products and do you...