Things I found this week #1

Some things of interest that I found this week:

Links

• How boredom can lead to you most brilliant ideas
• A great twitter thread on online branding in the context of US Presidential Candidates 
• The ever-brilliant Rory Sutherland on the TWaT Revolution
• How to create a 3D map with Google Maps

Books

• Read The Joy of work by Bruce Daisley.

Songs

• These New Puritans are back
• This compilation is on heavy rotation this week: The Roots of The Cramps

TV/Films

• The Kid Who Would Be King is bloody marvellous.
• True Detective Season 3 is getting good. Very good.
• The Good Place. If you’re waiting for Season 2 of Sex Education on Netflix, fill the void with the this.

Other

• Thriva – Signed up to this last week. So I can track and prevent health issues

The Death of the Marketing Persona

Earlier this year I was invited by Tim and Joe to be a guest on their Real Marketing Rap podcast. During the course of the chat we talked about:

• How B2B marketing teams should be preparing for Voice Search.
• The death of marketing personas.
• LinkedIn as a marketing channel.
• Core themes for marketing in 2019.

I thoroughly enjoyed taking part. Have a listen: The Death of Marketing Personas

 

 

 

Some music I enjoyed in January 2019

Have a listen

Dragons – Food for my soul

Bill Ryder-Jones – Recover

The House of Love – Fade Away (John Peel session)

David Holmes – Kill her with kindness

Warm Drag – Cruising the night

Thousand Yard Stare – Wonderment

Hen Ogledd – Tiny Witch Hunter

Snapped Ankles – Drink and Glide

Field Music – She can do what she wants

Jim Jones and the Revue – SHAZAM

The Wave Pictures – Close your eyes Mike

You Tell Me  – Water Cooler

Deerhunter – Element

Pom Poko – My Blood

International Teachers of Pop – After Dark

Feet – Fat White Family

Rozi Plain – Symmetrical

Lavinia Blackwall – Waiting for Tomorrow

Chuck Berry – Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Ezra Furman – Anything can Happen

Oh Sees – Last Peace

Angelo De Augustine – Time

School of Language – Rockist Part 4

Mott the Hoople – All the Way from Memphis

FEELS  -Awful Need