You probably know the phrase “Pigs Might Fly” or “When Pigs Fly”. Today I discovered that the world of sarky disbelief is rife with toothy chickens, mustachioed frogs, and coughing cows. We can trace the phrase “Pigs Might Fly”back to the 17th century when mutton was mutton and pigs few “in the air with their […]
The very first author whose name we have on record was a woman. And she’s been compared to Shakespeare. Her name was Enheduanna (?????) and she lived from 2285 to 2250 BCE. Enheduanna was installed as High Priestess of Ur (now in Iraq) by her empire-building father Sargon 1, King of Akkad. So she was […]
Takeshi Okawara, the marketing genius who sold Japan on KFC for Christmas dinner, recently admitted that it was built on a lie. When KFC Japan was starting from scratch, the national broadcaster NHK asked if fried chicken was really the Western Christmas tradition. Okawara replied “Of course!” He told podcast “Household Name” : “I knew that the […]
Mars once offered a reward of 2 million dark chocolate M&M’s for the return of the recently stolen painting “The Scream”. The offer was tied to the launch of an 2006 ad campaign for Dark M&M’s. Mars added a rather terrifying red M&M playing hopscotch in their version of “The Scream” As the slogan says […]
Is there a website that you turn for inspiration, business tips or the latest tech tools and hacks? Ever wondered what websites entrepreneur swear by to save time and refine their skills? Here are 67 websites that entrepreneurs recommend in online forums. Canva, Trello, and Producthunt get a lot of love! The good news is […]
Bad Meetings. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoint presentations from ‘em; Elon Musk has famously encouraged walkouts. The bane of many lives. As the saying goes: minutes are kept in meetings but hours are lost. Workers on average waste 61% of their time coordinating their work in meetings, email, and chat rather than actually doing […]
Here’s a guide to writing e-commerce product category descriptions with a twist. Every single tip is backed up by real e-commerce website copy that I just worked on. Every business relies on words. But how does an e-commerce site get the words right while focusing on suppliers, sales channels, markets, currencies, legal requirements – and […]
Just before a firing squad executed him, Gary Gilmore was asked if he had any last words. “Let’s do it,” he said. Swoosh to Dan Wieden, the founder of Wieden + Kennedy agency. Wieden told Dezeen Magazine how he picked the “Just do it” slogan: “The reason I did that one was funny because I […]
Back in 2003, Plymouth University students received £2,000 from the Arts Council to give six monkeys one computer for a month. After six months, the Shakespeare monkeys had failed to produce a single word of English, broken the computer and used the keyboard as a lavatory. They pressed a lot of S’s,” researcher Mike Phillips […]
The original cubicle had a standing desk, a private space and slotted together like lego. What happened to the cubicle? Before the cubicle, clerical workers sat at small desks in straight rows, often facing the same way. It was a factory production line that produced nothing but paper. It was a classroom without a teacher. […]
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