Making Sense
"Learn to enjoy a liminal, confused state…"
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Deep dives with interesting people.
Making Sense
"The most essential attribute for a semiotician is an awareness of how meaning is constructed."
Making Sense
"It is gold when a client suddenly realizes that the cultural codes and dynamics playing out in an entirely different industry hold key answers to their own questions."
Making Sense
"Many client questions are not only about behaviour or preference, but about meaning."
Making Sense
"The most satisfying projects are those where meaning is operating everywhere at once."
Making Sense
"When we interrogate social taboos, we can steer towards significant transformation."
Making Sense
"Applied semiotics allows you to read any object as a novel!"
Making Sense
"A label, a framing choice, a repeated gesture, a category, a visual convention, a protocol: these are often the places where larger systems become visible."
Making Sense
"What does semiotics bring to the party?" is the key question.
Making Sense
"Make abstract ideas and observations clear, without losing the rigour or wonder of whatever ideas you had in the first place. "
Making Sense
"Unlike LLMs, we help build a deep understanding of culture, not just engage in pattern recognition."
Making Sense
"You notice when a system is addicted to an old myth it can no longer metabolize."
Making Sense
"If analysis doesn’t restore the beauty, texture, or emotional vibration of an object, it becomes abstract."
Making Sense
"Do not rely only on your intuition or gut, but make sense of them using concepts, models and instruments produced by semioticians."
Making Sense
"I enjoy this discipline's ability to open minds, reveal new possibilities and energise people."