Neil White

President & CEO of BBDO Minneapolis - passionate about creative that is behavior changing.

[Neil White @NeilWhite]

#brilliant #inspiring "We always do it in one fell swoop and don't take breaks. Except dance breaks." http://t.co/YQHlMRaFiN via @aljwhite

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@astro_reid Wonderful to watch this mission @astro_reid congratulations to you and the team. Truly awesome.

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@ElonMusk_LordX Going 11.

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@Mishi_2210 9 unless your nickname is Dot, in which case 10!

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Some useful models here.

[Aspireachieve @Aspireachievee]

HOW TO BECOME Strategic Thinker.

(7 mental powers of the strategist)

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Aidako Shisho is a Japanese artist who creates amazing sculptures out of cardboard.

https://t.co/qyN8MV5CH9

[Kelly Boesch🏳️‍🌈 @kellyeld]

I always come back to these surreal scenes. I love making these. I find them soothing to watch. I try all different styles. This one is just using my own personalization setting in #midjourney. Animated with @Higgsfield AI. Song made using @Suno

# #ai #aiart #aivideo #suno

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

That’s why he is the coach. 😂

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

Here are 5 books I want you to read.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

My takeaway from this video is simple:

If a completely regimented, top-down and unemotional decision making body like the Chinese bureaucracy allows a vehicle like this on the road, then autonomy is not only safe and reliable it’s also here today.

So any decision less than full support for autonomy in any country of the world other than China, then, is just a form of corruption or regulatory capture.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Wildlife photographer Varun Aditya shot this incredible clip without flash, staying in a hiding place for 3 nights to patiently wait for the pride of Lions...

[Neil White @NeilWhite]

@ElonMuskAOC Yes, do you need my address?

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

Every writer should staple this adjectives matrix to their desk:

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@davidaxelrod And in Minneapolis too.

[TED-Ed @TED_ED]

“With advances in generative AI, we're now approaching a world where it's broadly easier to make fake reality, but also to dismiss reality as possibly faked.”

Learn 3 key steps to protecting your ability to distinguish real from simulated: https://t.co/yTNZQDyOJE

[George Mack @george__mack]

My favorite Charlie Munger story:

In 1953, Munger was 29 years old.

Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then.

His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer.

The leukemia was incurable.

No medical insurance - Munger paid for all his medical care.

Charlie would visit Teddy in the hospital every day -- and then walk the streets crying.

Teddy died at the age of 9.

Charlie was broke, divorced and just lost his child.

99.9% of people would've turned to alcohol, drugs, or suicide. (And you'd understand why)

Munger never did.

Fast forward to 52 years old, a failed surgery left him blind in one eye with the potential of going fully blind one day.

Charlie was an obsessive learner who read every book he could get his hands on.

When confronted with the possibility of going blind and no longer being able to read he said:

"It's time for me to learn braille!"

The only thing that might be more impressive than his intellect was his actions.

RIP.

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Munger on Self-Pity:

"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought.

Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia…

Every time you find your drifting into self-pity, I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying from cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation. It’s a ridiculous way to behave.

Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t.

There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

All artists were once amateurs who simply worked on their craft more than most. https://t.co/V8xIEsRUFO

[Neil White @NeilWhite]

Alex Paganelli AKA Deadhungry's approach to shooting food is arresting. "Provoking a visceral reaction with one of the most visceral things in life. You can call it chaos, or you can admit it’s creativity." See article featured in…https://t.co/yDm0jrj9pw https://t.co/A7GXWC1E2e

[Neil White @NeilWhite]

Looking to be inspired? Here is some of the best work from BBDO Worldwide, featured in LBBonline - Little Black Book and headed to Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this year. 
#creativity #canneslions2023 #effective https://t.co/l6uHfBQnLn

[Neil White @NeilWhite]

For views on European real estate markets, be sure to catch this spotlight. https://t.co/zdA1PAhU4B