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UNPOPULAR OPINIONS
ON MARKETING
Most marketing advice is comfortable, safe, and wrong.
This is where we say what we actually think.


Your Marketing Dashboard Is Making You Dumber.
Dashboards were supposed to improve decisions. Instead, many companies use them to avoid making decisions altogether. A dashboard can show what the connected systems recorded. It cannot explain everything that caused the numbers to move, decide what matters most or tell the company what to do next. That work is called reporting, and it still requires judgment. The more confidently information is mistaken for understanding, the less intelligent the organization becomes. At a r
Fabian Menzel
Jul 238 min read


AI Automation Is Like Teenage Sex. Everybody Is Talking About It, Nobody Has It.
Everybody talks about AI automation as if companies are already running themselves. They are not. Most “automation” is still demos, pilots, partial workflows, and humans fixing things in the background. The real opportunity is not replacing marketers with agents. It is making marketers stronger. AI works best when it helps people research faster, think sharper, analyze more, create better, and learn faster. The problem is the story. The solution is the work. AI automation is
Fabian Menzel
Jun 266 min read
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