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Friends

Friends

Friends

We don’t use words like visionary. None of us think we’re visionaries. We just know the business we’ve all been in for nigh on four decades. That’s a long fucking time. So many hard lessons learned. So much change over just the last ten years. It taught us something about what’s happening in and out of our working worlds. And gave us some

We don’t use words like visionary. None of us think we’re visionaries. We just know the business we’ve all been in for nigh on four decades. That’s a long fucking time. So many hard lessons learned. So much change over just the last ten years. It taught us something about what’s happening in and out of our working worlds. And gave us some sense of how we might help make the world work differently. 

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Friends

Friends

As Open AI and its cousins cast the advertising business headlong and hurtling into obsolescence, it seemed to thomas that there was an opportunity to do what the account services people always told him never to do— reinvent the wheel.  


In the space of this understanding, thomas reconnected with many of his former colleagues and old frien

As Open AI and its cousins cast the advertising business headlong and hurtling into obsolescence, it seemed to thomas that there was an opportunity to do what the account services people always told him never to do— reinvent the wheel.  


In the space of this understanding, thomas reconnected with many of his former colleagues and old friends to understand what they were learning from the media mayhem that they all still work in. 

Thomas

Friends

Thomas

Though he was notoriously offensive, frequently profane, regularly critical of account services, argumentative with strategists, impatient with project management, and intolerant of senior leadership’s limitations, he managed by some miracle to make a few lasting friends. Friends who  went on to become chiefs of creative, of strategy, of marketing, of intelligence, of information technology..


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