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farisyakob
New York
Interests: internet. brands. girls. raving. technology = happy things.
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This is Water
This is Water. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life [Kindle Edition] by David Foster Wallace, is one of my all time favorite pieces of writing. When I first read it, I... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Talent imitates, genius steals
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On the Road
Posted May 14, 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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I Love Your Work
Posted May 2, 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Present Shock
Thanks to an invitation from Mr and Mrs Schiller, I got to go to a launch party for Douglas Rushkoff's new book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now [Kindle Edition] a week or two ago at Meet at the Apartment.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Studying Cases
I was on my way to the One Club to help judge the finalists of the digital Young Ones awards last night, and, as is sometimes the way of things, the universe used coincidence to tell me something... "The thing... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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The Story of The Memory of The Experience
A while back I gave a talk at the Google Think Travel conference. It was a super fun gig. I posted the deck and some thoughts before. People seemed to like it and asked about the presentation itself. So here... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Advertising's Benevolent Dictators: Ogilvy
Posted Mar 19, 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Let's Get Scenius [Live]
Let's get scenius faris from Faris Yakob Here is the live version of the article below that I performed at Social Media Week NYC and the slides that accompanied the 15 minute talk. Followed by the very excellent talks from... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Let's Get Scenius
Posted Feb 16, 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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they're pretty good ;)
Commented Feb 1, 2013 on Ex Libris 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
Ex Libris 2013
[I still get and have a lot of [analogue] books. I'm an in-betweener. I love Kindle reading, but I love the carapaces of books too.] A while back I wrote a piece for the International Journal of Advertising called Ex Libris. [It's a regular column where someone shares books that are impor...
every post has at least vocabulary builder in it ;)
Commented Feb 1, 2013 on Ex Libris 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
Ex Libris 2013
[I still get and have a lot of [analogue] books. I'm an in-betweener. I love Kindle reading, but I love the carapaces of books too.] A while back I wrote a piece for the International Journal of Advertising called Ex Libris. [It's a regular column where someone shares books that are impor...
Ex Libris 2013
Posted Jan 31, 2013 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Our {Virgin} Digital Future
Posted Dec 30, 2012 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Get Home Safely
Posted Dec 28, 2012 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Being Good for Business: Admap Prize 2013
Posted Dec 19, 2012 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Highly Evolved Luxury
Luxury Evolved: Craft to Symbol from Faris Yakob A while back I gave the keynote at the Luxury Marketing Council Summit in NYC. As is so often the case, I was asked to talk about the future of... [this often,... Continue reading
Posted Dec 13, 2012 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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indeed mate - will post a pic. once i get it!
Commented Dec 5, 2012 on Bits of Atoms at Talent imitates, genius steals
Bits of Atoms
I was briefly on NPR/WNYC this week talking about robots [kind of] thanks to an invitation to attend the opening of the Makerbot store in NYC. You can listen to the show NewTechCity above. I'm riffing lyrical on the ultimate implications what are now called 3D printers, but will hopefully ...
Bits of Atoms
Posted Nov 30, 2012 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Hello Chris!
Ah - thanks! I've fixed the malformed URL. Cheers! FX
Commented Nov 30, 2012 on More Links To The Awesome at Talent imitates, genius steals
More Links To The Awesome
I guest curated the #TuesdayTen last week. You can read it here. It's full of tasty links and some contextual commentary, about the OED word of the year, the $20 tablet, a new kickstarter project called the AdTrap, and more. Have you signed up yet? You should. You can see all the previou...
More Links To The Awesome
Posted Nov 19, 2012 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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Planning For Optimism
Posted Nov 1, 2012 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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thanks Kelly! appreciate it.
Commented Oct 11, 2012 on 7 Habits of Highly Effective Communication at Talent imitates, genius steals
7 Habits of Highly Effective Communication
Prologue The nice Effies people kindly asked me [and bunch of other people] to write some thoughts based on their analysis of the Effie winners this year. So I did. And here it is. Separately, the lovely people at WARC approached me with an idea to surface some of the excellent research and ...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Communication
Posted Oct 11, 2012 at Talent imitates, genius steals
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thanks Ollie!
yes. interfaces are super important. although we want 'content not chrome' to quote metro.. and perhaps the brand is the interface layer to the company.
experience planning. experience design. holistic thinking. all groovy.
Commented Oct 4, 2012 on Think Travel: Experience Matters at Talent imitates, genius steals
Think Travel: Experience Matters
Google Think Travel Keynote - Faris from Faris Yakob Google asked me to give the opening keynote at the THINK TRAVEL conference a couple of weeks back, which was fun. The theme of the day was: Experience Matters. And it does. But not as much, or in exactly the way, we might think. My thesi...
tell yourself a story about it ;)
Commented Oct 4, 2012 on Think Travel: Experience Matters at Talent imitates, genius steals
Think Travel: Experience Matters
Google Think Travel Keynote - Faris from Faris Yakob Google asked me to give the opening keynote at the THINK TRAVEL conference a couple of weeks back, which was fun. The theme of the day was: Experience Matters. And it does. But not as much, or in exactly the way, we might think. My thesi...
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