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Stop Worshiping ROAS, Start Building Brands
I’m Erik Huberman, and I have a simple opinion that ruffles feathers: our industry’s obsession with ROAS is hurting marketing. ROAS looks clean on a dashboard. It makes us...
Bob Weir’s Feral Radiance
Although Weir was a serious person it was easy to make him laugh. He made you feel when you were with him that he had no other place to...
Nia DaCosta Injects New Blood Into “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”
In “The Bone Temple,” the full extent of Jimmy’s evil is revealed early on. So, too, is the range of O’Connell’s screen villainy, no less impressively showcased by his...
Great Marketing Is Broken—and I’m Fixing Access
Marketing shouldn’t be a luxury item. Yet for too many brands, that’s how it’s priced, packaged, and delivered. My view is simple: great marketing is unfairly out of reach,...
A President with His Finger on the Nation’s Pulse
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Zach Bryan’s Stubborn, Shaggy New Album
In 2019, it seemed possible that the next big country star would be a Navy aviation ordnanceman from Oklahoma named Zach Bryan, who recorded scruffy videos of himself hollering...
In Two Films About Palestinian Struggle, Time Is of the Essence
Dabis’s diagrammatically structured screenplay is built on clear historical parallels and tidy intergenerational contrasts. A young boy adores his father, yet grows up to be despised by his own...
Stop Chasing Funding, Start Chasing Customers
There’s a lie many founders hear on day one: you need outside money to build a real business. You don’t. The first step isn’t a pitch deck. It’s a...
The New York Shooting That Defined an Era
“Death Wish” was the dark New York story of its era—an anti-“Annie Hall” for the armed and aggrieved. An architect sees his wife killed and his daughter raped by...
Lagos Is a Vortex of Energy
The British Nigerian photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare took note of those aspects, capturing daily Lagos in his recent book, “Èkó,” a collage of scenes and portraits from the city,...
The Robot and the Philosopher
Sophia wasn’t particularly talkative that evening. Earlier that day, she’d been onstage at the conference I was attending and had been teased for a gesture that looked as though...