Michael J. Miraflor
@michaelmiraflor
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strategy/marketing/vc/ads/brands/trends. art. culture. music. travel. retail. fashion. sports. tech. @ucberkeley & berlin school mba alum. retired dj. 🇵đź‡đź‡şđź‡¸
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Joined May 2008
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These remind me of Amazon Dash buttons. I miss the Amazon Dash buttons (except for that one time when I accidentally ordered 48 rolls of paper towels). RIP those experimental days.
IKEA's new beautiful design for home device is so brilliant and intuitive.
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President @realDonaldTrump can make this happen and change the lives of millions of Americans with cancer. The Cancer Moonshot went nowhere with the past administration but could succeed with President Trump's decisive action today. AMERICAN FIRST.
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Supercar rental companies are going to be down bad from all this Nano Banana-ing.
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"vibe gardening"... is a catchy phrase imo.
Turns out Nano Banana Pro is great at landscaping plans... Just get an ugly cutout from Google Maps with "Here is my property, create a landscape architecture style map". Then just annotate the image and throw it in until you land on the design. Is this vibe gardening?
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This is like asking performance marketers about “brand”
If a girl asks your zodiac sign and your first response is to be annoyed, you’ve already fucked up. You don’t have enough whimsy in your heart to entertain an arbitrary topic for even a little tiny bit and it’s ugly
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None of these words are in the Bible + imagine the face melting off a Victorian child as you explain this to them.
In a 6-hour livestream today, immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripped on shrooms to see if it could help extend the human lifespan. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce checked in remotely and Grimes DJ’d, concluding her set with a Beach House song. https://t.co/JjDr6bVyB1
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Adweek: Omnicom to Cut 4,000 Jobs, Retire FCB, DDB, and MullenLowe The era of agencies with partner names on the door continues to fold. DDB especially sticks out to me here… such legendary work over the decades.
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to really know who you are, you usually have to suffer through an intense period of not having a clue who you are… and if you try to hurry or skip through that period, you end up with a rushed answer, an answer designed to make you feel good & safe & comfortable, and that’s
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I do think most things in life that are measurable have got better , but there was a lot to be said for the vibes 2006-2012. The internet felt naive. The future felt exciting . Everything seemed folksy and passionate and crafted. It feels sinister and greedy and impatient now
Can anyone pin-point the exact moment where everything in society just got substantially worse?
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Imagine buying one in the middle of the night without anyone else around. You’d have to buy another to open it 🤷🏽‍♂️
Coca-Cola designed a bottle you can't open alone. Encouraging you to meet someone new.
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“6 years ago”
6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
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Influencers timeline: Pre-2010: Oprah (en mass), friend and family 2010-2020: Kardashians, Rhianna, 100m+ 2020-2025: mom bloggers, niche influencers, people who know their topics 2025-2030: back to friends?
@BryceHall We’re already seeing a shift away from aspirational influencer to accessible affiliate. I think consumers will keep trying to find authentic voices, though they may not be able to discern them
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Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan is now a billionaire. At least on paper. The platform still hasn’t turned a profit, but its valuation has reached $9 billion. https://t.co/2LabByU7bd
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Similar to Sports Illustrated and Playboy. Super loyal but aging customer base. How does the brand navigate trying to find younger customers without alienating their base (which still accounts for disproportionate revenue)? Difficult business problem. Do it wrong, and brand
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Neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr underestimate how much of a blessing it is to have zero health problems and your mum still alive.
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“IMMORTAL UNC” just sent me. What a time to be alive.
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My theory or at least contributing factor is that we almost never look at our phones to register what artist is associated with songs that are served to us by our algorithms. So we might know the songs and can even sing along to them, but often fail to associate them with
The black kids in this video Not knowing who Nelly is Has nothing to do with their age It’s the lack of black culture being passed down through the generations by black parents I’m a 90s baby I still knew who rakim, NWA, big daddy Kane, ice T, Luther vandross. Marvin
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Top rankings of real ice cream
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