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Andy Powell
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Learn it all from the Neanderthals.
The Neanderthals get a bad rap. They actually had bigger brains than Homo Sapiens (you and me), were creating art 20,000 years before we...
Andy Powell
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Learning from the bottom half of the internet
Funny things can happen to you in forty-degree heat. I was standing in the middle of a dried-up river bed in Burkina Faso, as you do,...
Andy Powell
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Who do you believe in a post-truth world?
We live in strange times. The Oxford Dictionary announced the 2016 Word of the Year as Post-truth. And you hardly have to pick through...
Andy Powell
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One moment in time.
It’s probably not something you’ve ever been asked. Or thought about. But, if you could only show your audience one fleeting moment, what...
Andy Powell
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Bursting your own bubble.
I’m a big believer in trying to see the world through other people’s eyes. It’s an essential skill for anyone working in advertising....
Andy Powell
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Telling your story in six words.
Ernest Hemingway once told a table of writers that he could write a story in just six words. They each bet him ten dollars that he...
Andy Powell
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Everything you know is wrong. Probably.
I like facts. Amazing ones. Trivial ones. Completely counter-intuitive ones.
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