Sean Quinn Sean Quinn

The Performative Nature Of Everything These Days

Welcome to the digital high school cafeteria where everyone competes for attention with louder claims, flashier presentations, and more outrageous promises.

Have you joined the performance circus or are you building something serious?

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Sean Quinn Sean Quinn

"Correlation Isn't Causation," But Do You Know Why?

When faced with a deluge of information, many a marketer will fall prey to the data dredging trap, leading to drawing false conclusions from the random patterns that appear. Those patterns can appear remarkably convincing, especially when analyzing multiple variables simultaneously. This "data dredging" effect explains why so many research findings fail to replicate and why misleading correlations flood social media and information outlets

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Sean Quinn Sean Quinn

The Analog Shelf Moment Is In A Death Spiral

What is most interesting is that we are seeing the shift from making great ads, hoping people remember you later when it's time to buy, to being present in the precise moment someone decides to trust a recommendation, either from an algorithm, a human, or both. When AI recommends Cetaphil on the spot, people buy. Not because they were manipulated, but because they were helped.

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