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Mr. Zelenskyy Goes to Washington

I was still wrapped in my blanket cocoon, phone inches from my face, when I saw a news clip that made me rub my eyes in disbelief. There, in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance were locked in what could only be described as diplomatic theater of the absurd.

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Life is a Game

Gaming is serious business. It’s now worth at least five times more than the movie and music industries combined.

I’ve loved playing computer games for as long as I can remember. It probably started in a dingy, cigarette-smoke-filled arcade on the upper floor of Federal Bowl in the early eighties. Bored out of my mind while my father and his colleagues enjoyed their bowling downstairs, I would plot my escape from those mundane evenings—one twenty-sen coin at a time—into the pixelated worlds of Pac-Man, Galaga and Space Invaders.

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FOMO Friendly Fire

It was supposed to be a casual meet up but we ended up poisoning each other.

Last Sunday, three friends (me included) wandered into a digital mall in PJ, armed with credit cards and lethal doses of persuasive skills. You see, when marketing folks shop together, we don’t just encourage each other– we deploy the same psychological tactics we typically reserve for work.

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Saying “No” and getting what you want

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”

I wish I could claim that nugget of wisdom as my own, but unfortunately, some Harvard Business School professor beat me to it decades ago.

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