What Power is For There is an update I want to share with you, a new episode I want you to know about, and an idea I'd love someone to take me up on. Updates After a great deal of laziness, I decided to move the newsletter back to Ghost. For those
Episodes They Want to Know What You Think The latest episode of Cross Tabs is almost a crossover with The Focus Group Podcast!
Newsletter Why does talking to - and listening to - people matter? The long-overdue second installment of "If I Did It" - a rumination on research methods built to understand, and to act.
Newsletter If I Did It** A few initial thoughts about how a branding agency would approach rebranding the Democrats
Newsletter Over before it began The importance of fighting for real victories, and moral ones too. And a bit about Clausewitz, because I took Law of War in law school. So there.
Newsletter Always-on Brands You can't build a brand in 107 days. You shouldn't run a campaign once every 2 years. But also: you don't need to run weekly brand trackers.
"when the city they love finally loves them back" Brands are vehicles for emotions. You can't build those vehicles with surveys.
Other People's Podcasts Weekend Reading Live with Farrah Bostic A conversation with Mike Podhorzer about <waves hands> all this.
Newsletter Representative Democracy is an Interface Some reflections on my conversation with G. Elliott Morris, all while reading a book literally called Oligarchy.
What should pollsters do in the absence of a horse race? A new episode of Cross Tabs, featuring Ariel Edwards-Levy
Why does all this ambition & abundance seem so... small? A few half-formed thoughts on what I suspect is getting in the way of leadership.
Episodes A Post-Truth Economy Built for the 1% My conversation with Faris Yakob of Genius Steals about the YOLO economy, diverging demographic destinies, and why there is no "average" American for you to appeal to, in politics or marketing
Newsletter What is a brand? What do Democrats have to do with soda, burgers, rental cars, sportsball teams, or SaaS? Let's discuss.
Friday Rant Time I am not emotionally prepared to talk about the Actual Problems, so instead I got mad at a liberal YouTuber
Episodes It’s a Party of the People — but which party? My interview with Patrick Ruffini about the emergent multicultural, populist coalition that’s been shifting to the right.
Episodes When Tech Bros Reinvent Government (And Miss the Point Entirely) A conversation with strategist and civic tech expert, Dan Hon.
