The Adnostic

The January LikeMind Coffee Morning experienced a 50% attendance growth from the December Coffee Morning. Upon further analysis, this meant that attendance went from just me and Erika....

to me, Jamie, and my old boss Jay. Going from 2 people to 3 = 50% increase! Gotta love the spin control of data presentation.

Met Jamie, a New York transplant working at Yahoo, for the first time. She's very nice and I look forward to getting to know her better. It was also great seeing Jay again.

We never got into any deep philosophical conversations. Just nice “getting to know you” stuff and catching up. Talked a bit about focus group research and luxury branding (which I've really developed an interest in with all of the design magazines I've been reading) and perception. Jay also updated me on his retail project in Montana - The 9 Mile Schoolhouse Christmas Market. It's an odd project for a Jew who served in the Israeli army, but what are you going to do?

I also got an update on the rapidly declining state of my previous place of employment, which is a shame. No one likes to see a team of smart and creative people be put to waste.

All in all, we covered a lot in an hour and had a marvelous breakfast in the process. I'm looking forward to next month's get-together.