Sitemap - 2022 - The Brad Berens Weekly Dispatch

My 2023 Prediction… or Prayer

What Happens When Companies Become Partisan?

Scarier than Skynet: AI and Persuasion

Experience Stacks, Competitive Advantage, and Netflix’s “Wednesday”

Frontiers of Scale

A New Scam: The “Middle of the Night” Call

On Strategy: the Power of WITDO

The End of Cheap Scale?

Musk & Twitter: Can We All Please Calm TF Down?

Social Media and the Banality of Evil

Industry Evolution by Meteor Strike

Why Musk is Stalling

Mediapocalypse 2025

Bonus: When A.I.’s compete with human artists

Nostalgia and Pseudo-Nostalgia in TV

Frontiers of Live Experience

Misinformation & “Prebunking,” Experience Stacks & Physical Objects

Surveillance Capitalism Bedtime Stories…

The New York Times’ Moral Lapse

Extra! Walmart signs with Paramount

Why Walmart Should Buy Paramount

Experience Stacks, Movie Stars, and the Problem with Facebook

Experience Stacks: Top Gun, Star Trek, Spider-Man

Why it’s so hard to think

What Twitter should do next (after Musk)

The world in April, 2023

Nothing is ever meant to be

Analog Lives in a Digital World

What Fox News Should Have Said

A Simple Test for What Counts as “The Metaverse”

Trust is Analog

The Web3/Creator Paradox

The Fragile Glory of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," plus…

“Change Your Life” Productivity Apps & How to Use Them!

Elon Musk Still Doesn’t Want Twitter

Amazon’s New Pay-With-Your-Palm Tech and its Implications

Musk, Trump, Twitter, and New Media Math

Distraction Audits & Why to Do One

Apple, Alaska Airlines, Taco Bell & Sweetgreen: the Trouble with Subscriptions

How Risk is Changing

New Challenges for Facebook

The Experience Gap

Why Amazon Will Buy Starbucks

Why Facebook is Creepier than Google

NFTs, 5G, HUD: Colliding Trends and the Intermediate Future

Overfocusing and Immersion

Anti-Vaxxers and the Arts of Persuasion

Secret Stories: Microsoft, Activision, Spotify, Joe Rogan, Neil Young, Facebook