Thoughts. 

Recalibrating Shame

Aaron Powers

The marketing industry spent a century commercializing shame within a technological and social context that followed relatively stagnant rules. But the shame commercialization play has run headlong into 21st-century transparency and connectedness. How do brands evolve? What would it look like to adopt a shame-less marketing playbook?

Progress Report 

A newsletter that’s fuel for the work and a break from the work.

Issue

Title

Author

Artist

  1. 12

    Shaking Up Your “Commute”

    Caroline Brinton

    Joanne Bolens

    Joey Camire

    Nora Mestrich

  2. 11

    Judging Each Other Even More Than Before

    Ilana Bondell

    Joey Camire

    Kennedy Whittington-Cooper

    Nora Mestrich

  3. 10

    Celebrating the NBA’s Ethical Imagination

    Chris Konya

    Nora Mestrich

    Camille Drucker

    Katie Sadow

  4. 9

    The (Zoom) Window Into Ourselves

    Sherzad Rahmatian

    Marije Roodhof

    Cole Nielsen

    Katie Sadow

  5. 8

    Decluttering or Re-cluttering?

    Merideth Bogard

    Alex Anderson

    Helen Li

    Mujtaba Hameed

    Nora Mestrich

  6. 7

    The 15-Minute City

    Osei Kwakye

    Gretchen Devero

    Cole Nielsen

    Cristina Pansolini

    Katie Sadow

  7. 6

    Relationship Intervention

    Zach Visotsky

    Katie Driscoll

    Jess Vander

    Ben Cheney

    Katie Sadow

  8. 5

    An Unexpected Love Language

    Jillian Rosen

    Steven Ebert

    Makena Drutman

    Eliza Hadjis

    Katie Sadow

  9. 4

    Don’t Tell Us to Wear Makeup

    Jillian Rosen

    Steven Ebert

    David Volle

    Osei Kwakye

    Katie Sadow

  10. 3

    Slacking on Cohesion

    Joey Camire

    Osei Kwakye

    Steven Ebert

    Katie Sadow

Critical Nonsense

Our podcast of high-low brow questions about anything and everything.

Hosted by Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and Executive Producer/Nerd-Herder, Jess Vander.

  • 358 Reading

  • 357 Good-Looking Food

  • 356 Overbranding

  • 355 Reviews

  • 354 Early Birds and Night Owls

View all episodes