social-creature

For the past two years, Espresso has taken a stab at answering a simple, compelling question: “What The F**k Is Social Media?” The answer has turned into a series of presentations that have been viewed over 750,000 times, translated into about 10 languages (including Russian, so I’ve finally been able to explain to my parents [...]

Oh boy.
This is not typically the kind of stuff I write about here, but it is something I feel quite strongly about, and, if nothing else, it makes for a case study in cross-cultural communication — not to mention some interesting neuroscience.
Last week, as the New York Times reported, French President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed the [...]

NOTE: These two items are actually unrelated, I just figured I’d kill two fashion birds with one post.
Stargate Outfits:

Watching Hulu’s recommended shows scroll by, it suddenly dawned on me that the outfits that the cast of Startgate: Atlantis are wearing in the promo shot look incredibly familiar:

Particularly the leather jacket, second from left…

Reminded me a [...]

this is what the bottom shelf in aisle 8 at ralph’s looks like:

uh… which one am i supposed to buy?
i iz confuzled.

how’s about an introduction?
before i tell you what i do, i’ll tell you about who i am, and you’ll understand where my sensibilities for marketing come from….

i was born in the former ussr to a jewish family. by the time i was six my parents had been “refuseniks” for nine years. the ussr government [...]