Tom Guarriello

Was this written yesterday?

51 - Things Change... Sometimes too much

What happens when your favorite things change...too much? Thoughts in my latest My Favorite Things Substack essay tomguarriello.substack.com/p/51-things-...

Make that two nil to The Arsenal!

One nil to The Arsenal!

Red, White and Blueland? Georgia congressman pushes a name change for Greenland — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia has proposed that President Trump acquire Greenland and rename it.

When the crazies get the Bat(ty) Signal, this starts happening apple.news/Ab25M-2JFQ5S...

YouTube video by TRIZE "To Anacreon in Heaven" A.K.A. The Drinking Song (Lyric Video)

Using the popular trope, I was today years old when I learned that the melody for the American National Anthem was, ahem, adopted from an 18th century English drinking song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IPL...

McLuhan saw a lot of what we're living with today a long time ago.

With overwhelming likelihood, your favourite musical artist or band is one from the era before you were twenty, argues @drtomg.bsky.social—if you’re an exception, you like score higher on the Openness scale in the Big 5 personality measure: https://buff.ly/4goXBtG

I've been discussing this ad and its psychological/branding implications in my "Meaning of Branded Objects" course at NYC's School of Visual Arts for the last two weeks. You do a great job of exploring the architecture of meaningful experience in this post.

One Nil To The Arsenal! Arsenal 1 Manchester United 0

What part of this is surprising?

Thanks, Scott. Will do.

@scottmccloud.bsky.social Hello! I've been using your facial depictions of emotions in a psychology of branding course I've taught for the past 15 years. They're great. Now, I'm writing a book and would love to connect with you about permission to use them there as well. Thanks for considering.

Usually this only happens on Tuesdays in Stoke, no?

And, what do we do then?

One crazy game for sure WHU 2 Ars 5!

Why did I say “rout?” WHU 2 Ars 4

Arsenal in a rout! 0 WHU 4 Arsenal!!!!

One nil to The Arsenal! WHU 0 Ars 1

What makes all these folie á deux shows so popular now?

Slowly…then all at once!

Here’s something you don’t see everyday! Happy Thanksgiving!!

Looking forward to hearing you talk NBA somewhere sometime soon

This is actually Katie Couric!

She is now Verified on Bluesky.

Makes sense…in some alternate universe

Death and the Child, by Edvard Munch, 1899, 📸 via @SportsCenter

NFL fans right now

Naive realism is our default “browser” when living in our day-to-day world. Lot of cognitive effort required to suspend it and reflect on its operations. “Select” implies more purposeful engagement than we normally utilize, right?

Just spent the last hour and a half reading stuff on this site and got smarter instead of angrier. So there’s that.

Also an excellent exploration of the interaction of rational and emotional dimensions of evaluations of people (and brands).