https://thecuriousbrain.com Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:53:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/unnamed-5506a9fcv1_site_icon.png https://thecuriousbrain.com 32 32 7840968 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/would-your-agency-ever-say-no-to-the-money/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/would-your-agency-ever-say-no-to-the-money/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:52:54 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153954 Here is a question you rarely see in an agency pitch deck: Is there a client whose money we should refuse? Not because the budget is too small or the brief is bad, but because helping that company become more trusted may itself become part of the problem. Advertising likes to imagine a clean division […]]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/would-your-agency-ever-say-no-to-the-money/feed/ 0 153954 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/what-happened-to-journalism/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/what-happened-to-journalism/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:11:09 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153937 Journalists are supposed to make powerful people uncomfortable. So here is a simple question: If your reporting never threatens your access, your advertisers, your owner, your audience or the people in power, what exactly are you reporting? Journalism was never meant to be stenography. A minister makes a statement. Repeating it is not enough. A […]]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/what-happened-to-journalism/feed/ 0 153937 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/notre-dame-no-rules/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/notre-dame-no-rules/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:06:14 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153933 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/notre-dame-no-rules/feed/ 0 153933 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/amour-propre-we-are-fire/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/amour-propre-we-are-fire/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:54:40 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153929 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/amour-propre-we-are-fire/feed/ 0 153929 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/cassian-x-ar-co-come-to-life/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/cassian-x-ar-co-come-to-life/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:52:24 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153925 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/cassian-x-ar-co-come-to-life/feed/ 0 153925 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/danielle-ponder-some-of-us-are-brave/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/danielle-ponder-some-of-us-are-brave/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:50:28 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153921 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/danielle-ponder-some-of-us-are-brave/feed/ 0 153921 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/ai-is-ruining-the-internet/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/ai-is-ruining-the-internet/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:44:56 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153917 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/ai-is-ruining-the-internet/feed/ 0 153917 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/we-investigated-al-psychosis-what-we-found-will-shock-you/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/we-investigated-al-psychosis-what-we-found-will-shock-you/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:41:52 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153913 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/we-investigated-al-psychosis-what-we-found-will-shock-you/feed/ 0 153913 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/how-much-privacy-is-left-in-an-age-of-surveillance/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/how-much-privacy-is-left-in-an-age-of-surveillance/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:39:59 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153909 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/how-much-privacy-is-left-in-an-age-of-surveillance/feed/ 0 153909 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/deceptively-real-and-life-threatening-on-the-trail-of-product-counterfeiters/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/deceptively-real-and-life-threatening-on-the-trail-of-product-counterfeiters/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:38:07 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153904 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/28/deceptively-real-and-life-threatening-on-the-trail-of-product-counterfeiters/feed/ 0 153904 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/how-much-failure-will-you-tolerate-before-you-stop-rewarding-it/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/how-much-failure-will-you-tolerate-before-you-stop-rewarding-it/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:54:32 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153900 Here is the uncomfortable truth. A government does not need you to believe it is good. It does not even need you to trust it. It only needs you to believe the alternative is worse. That is enough. Enough to survive failure. Enough to survive scandals. Enough to survive wasted money, broken promises, institutional decay […]]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/how-much-failure-will-you-tolerate-before-you-stop-rewarding-it/feed/ 0 153900 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/interpol-wings-on-fire/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/interpol-wings-on-fire/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:34:16 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153896 fresh from the oven]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/interpol-wings-on-fire/feed/ 0 153896 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/kids-arent-kids-anymore/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/kids-arent-kids-anymore/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:31:30 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153892 More toys are now sold to adults than to kids. Gen Alpha has become a generation of little consumers. The only ones benefitting from this toddler-to-consumer pipeline are corporations.]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/kids-arent-kids-anymore/feed/ 0 153892 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/history-repeats-were-at-the-dangerous-part/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/history-repeats-were-at-the-dangerous-part/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:29:29 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153888 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/history-repeats-were-at-the-dangerous-part/feed/ 0 153888 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/how-to-make-ai-companies-pay-your-energy-bill-ari-matusiak-ted/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/how-to-make-ai-companies-pay-your-energy-bill-ari-matusiak-ted/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:27:49 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153884 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/how-to-make-ai-companies-pay-your-energy-bill-ari-matusiak-ted/feed/ 0 153884 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/the-evolution-and-extinction-of-movie-poster-art/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/the-evolution-and-extinction-of-movie-poster-art/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:22:48 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153880 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/the-evolution-and-extinction-of-movie-poster-art/feed/ 0 153880 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/ads-for-ai-are-horrifying/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/ads-for-ai-are-horrifying/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:16:42 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153876 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/ads-for-ai-are-horrifying/feed/ 0 153876 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/i-tested-every-cruise-line-to-find-the-least-evil/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/i-tested-every-cruise-line-to-find-the-least-evil/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:12:58 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153872 An extremely comprehensive extremely deep extremely dive on the cruise industry as told by me sailing back-to-back across multiple cruise lines to answer one simple question: do they all suck as much as Royal Caribbean? Is Richard Branson daddy now? From flags of convenience, tax havens, exploitative crew contracts to hidden upsells, predatory drink packages, […]]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/25/i-tested-every-cruise-line-to-find-the-least-evil/feed/ 0 153872 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/24/open-a-i/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/24/open-a-i/#respond Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:05:27 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153869 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/24/open-a-i/feed/ 0 153869 https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/23/alewya-cairo-fm/ https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/23/alewya-cairo-fm/#respond Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:57:26 +0000 https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=153864 ]]> https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/09/23/alewya-cairo-fm/feed/ 0 153864