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omebody. You could use a dating app. You could use social media. And you would at least feel connected to the real world. So that's my guess. Social media reduced people taking their own life. Just a guess. Well, you may have seen that MSNBC is changing its name, and boy are they getting mocked. Their new name will be MS Now. So, it's my source for news, opinion, and world. Okay, first of all, th…
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Now, if I could soften it a little bit, I will give you an observation that I've made because I've been involved in designing logos and catchphrases and stuff for most of my career. A lot of licensed stuff needs to have some kind of catchy name. So over the Dilbert career, I've had to work with lots of people on various logos for licensed materials and stuff like that. And one of the things I learned is that there are no two people in the world who like the same logo or the same name. It's impossible. You can't find two people who will like the same logo or the same new name for a company. You just don't find it. You can get one person to like it, the person who suggests it, and then everybody else will be like, "No, that's not working." But here's an exercise that I recommend to all of you. Drive down the street and look at anybody's logo and anybody's phrase, you know, if they have some kind of marketing phrase
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and ask yourself if that had not already existed and you were in a meeting and somebody pitched it, would you have said, "Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a good one." And you will find that even the most famous and successful logos, you will look at them and you go, I would not have green lit that. So, nobody's ever happy with logos and name changes. Well, according to The Verge, there's a company called…
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