Life lessons from an ad man

I’ve been falling in love with TED talks lately. Here’s a great one covering intangible value and other fun marketing concepts.

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Connect With Me

Twitter: @renae_jones Email: renae@renaejones.net

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I love rules

Most of the time, I kind of hate rules. I get defensively mad that I’ll need to follow them, even when they’re rules I was unlikely to break in the first place. I also start worrying about not breaking them—oh no, does this obscure little thing I might want to do someday break this random [...]

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Why is Twilight like a Romance?

Fun video by @read_weep featuring insight from @SmartBitches on Twilight. I still haven’t read Twilight, but I totally got it, and I’ve seen it in other novels.

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Exotically serious puppies and kitties

There’s something about the super serious Animal Kingdom Drama treatment of kitties being kitties and puppies being puppies and mama cats being pissed off bad asses that really makes my day.

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Gender roles for men

Charlie Glickman has an excellent post on his blog about gender roles for men: http://www.charlieglickman.com/2011/05/the-performance-of-masculinty/ It gives some great insight into how harmful for men, even heterosexual cisgender men, gender roles can be. In the end, strong “rules” about sexuality and gender hurt everyone. Yeah, the rules hurt some groups more than others, but in [...]

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