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Tension: Companies rebrand to signal transformation, but surface changes often conceal unchanged systemic practices beneath ...

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Tension: Every email signup represents an exchange where customers offer attention in return for value, yet most ...

The 2015 data revealed something marketers spent the next ten years trying to complicate: people want to hear from brands ...

Tension: We expect friendships to end with clear reasons or dramatic fallouts, yet the relationships that shaped ...

Tension: We’ve built entire online identities around wit and humor, yet find ourselves unable to show up when the people closest to us need genuine emotional connection. Noise: Social media metrics ...

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