Communications in Crisis

Really interesting comments in Politico's Women Rule newsletter today. Republican pollster Christine Matthews tells Politico's Elizabeth Ralph that conservative women are dumping Trump en masse: College educated women are gone, gone, gone from him, just gone. Suburban women, I would argue, are gone, gone, gone… And what’s really dire for him is with non-college educated women. So they voted for him by a large margin in 2016, and they’re starting to sort of abandon ship. He can’t have that an...

"Social media polarizes our politics by allowing us all -- no matter how wrong we are about a political issue -- to find a large, enthusiastic group of people who are even wronger" -- P.J. O'Rourke as quoted today by The Bulwark ...

Young children have creative superpowers. We lose most of our creative capacity as we grow, neurologists tell us. So I was intrigued by comments from designers at LEGO and IKEA about how children create and play. Two key creativity insights are that children prefer discovering the right block from a messy, mixed pile of blocks (i.e. no sorting first) and that play stories don't necessarily stop when the blocks are put away. The comments come from a short interview with these designers in th...

It's shocking when Bloomberg feels its newsworthy to ask Bill Gates about investing in vaccines to control people’s minds using 5G radio waves. I'm not criticizing the Bloomberg journalists; they clearly don't give credence to these stupid conspiracy theories. But they do feel this distorted reality is serious enough that they need to ask the question and dedicate precious space to it in their final write up. And so does Bill Gates. Here's his answer: "It’s strange. They take the fact that ...