Making Sense
"Everything is or can be significant and worthy of our time."
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Deep dives with interesting people.
Making Sense
"The real power of semiotics lies in understanding how consumers create their own meaning systems."
Making Sense
"We're all semioticians — we all 'decode' as part of our everyday lives."
Making Sense
"You need to be comfortable with uncertainty, contradiction, and change."
Making Sense
"We're surrounded by messages. The semiotician asks: How have these been configured?"
Making Sense
"Cultivate a 'helicopter' view on things, concepts, and problems."
Making Sense
"We are not leaders, we are guides and pathfinders."
Making Sense
"Each new semiotics project is an Indiana Jones-type adventure."
Making Sense
"Semiotics succeeds because of its vast and ambitious scope."
Making Sense
"Achieving a deep, rich understanding of why we behave the way we do is the most rewarding part of the job."
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"Don’t set off to be a semiotician — instead, let semiotics set you off."
Making Sense
"It’s a semiotician’s imagination, open mind, and creative ability which are truly rare."
Making Sense
"Where everyone else sees things, a semiotician sees meaning."
Making Sense
"A semiotician must have an open heart — capable of appreciating the world beyond one's own perspective."