Inside Doug's Head

I am not a number, I am… What's that stuff they make glue out of? I'm that. Forever swirling, forwards and upwards, but always sticky. Sometimes, a little sad.

What if you were IBM advertising on YouTube to giant snack food companies, or global banks wanting to crunch billions of transactions against compliance controls? What if, after spending billions of dollars on marketing, you realized, YouTube viewers are none of those things? All you did was ruined your brand. Idiots. Should you get fired? …

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You know how ostriches, when they want to hide from reality, bury their heads in the sand? It’s not true, but it’s where the expression comes from. Somebody saw an ostrich looking for a contact lens in the sand, and immediately assumed they were hiding from something, or up to no good and didn’t want …

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