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Half-baked ideas and thoughts from the world of marketing and beyond:

• On Zoom, Teams and Google Meet, you can hide the view of your own webcam so you can stop monitoring how you appear. I highly recommend it.
• I publish this newsletter every other week. When I start earlier (i.e., week before rather than week-of), the depth and quality is better.
• Could there be a corporate workplace play for Peloton? Companies buy bikes and treadmills (i.e., for those companies who have the office space to spare), then provide subscriptions to employees who want them.
• Where AI might take over for human marketers: writing an email invitation to an upcoming webinar 🤖
• Bitcoin mining consumes a lot of energy. How about we just present CAPTCHA challenges to the mining computers?
• A comment about work. When in a state of flow, do everything you can to remain in that state.
• I recently worked a few days from a WeWork. In my home office, the days drag on. At the WeWork, the days flew by. I want to do this more often.
• Attending online meetings from home office vs. coworking space: the former can be energy-draining, while the latter is energy-boosting.
• A client of mine had an idea: they’d shoot some Instagram Reels featuring a sales leader. He’d tell dad jokes connected to their industry. Me: “You had me at dad jokes.”

I wrote a poem. It’s based on a recent flight I took.

The plane tilted upward ✈️
Cruising altitude reached
Pilot chimes in
"Alcoholic beverages available for purchase" 🍸
It’s seven thirty in the morning

Cheers,
-Dennis.