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6/28/2023 0 Comments

Random Finds.....

Stumbled upon on a Youtube rabbit hole adventure and what a find it was.

Isn't it just beautiful?

Click to Listen: Go Go Penguin - Window

And below another.....as one rabbit hole of discovery tends to lead to another still.

Simply dreamy. Quite captivating.

Great music to work to, great music to dream to.

Click to Listen: Mammal Hands - Mansion of a Million Years

Shout out to Go Go Penguin and Mammal Hands!

I love finding new music!

Love,

The Uptown Secretary

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6/28/2023 0 Comments

Graffiti as seen in Seattle

"Listen girls, if you simply cannot stop yourself from being catty; you might as well pop some bubblegum and do something more productive with that mouth of yours."

Photo Credit: Graffiti as seen in Seattle taken by The Uptown Secretary

Isn't this just great! Wowza. Shout out to the artist; love love love it.

Keep on keeping on.

Love,
The Uptown Secretary

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6/11/2023 0 Comments

What's up with the name The Uptown Secretary anyway? What does that even mean?

It's simple.

Uptown is all about class, substance, and elegance.

It's about being high-class, fly, exclusive, in vogue, sharp, select, discerning, and strategic.

It's also about being cool, quick witted, media savvy, calculating, artful and intelligent.

Secretary is all about knowledge, wisdom, and confidentiality.

It's about having a silent partner that handles all the details it entails to promote your business with discernment and expertise.

A secretarius (secretary) is a person overseeing business confidentially, usually for a powerful individual (a king, a queen, a CEO, a business owner).

With The Uptown Secretary, you have found a partner that's strategic, confidential, and loyal to your business pursuits.

Meet us at the corner of class and strategy. We will see you there!

Resources:
www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/uptown.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary

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6/9/2023 0 Comments

#SocialSecretary

The 8 Second Rule (not to be confused with the other one where.... yes you can still eat that.)

It's pretty widespread marketing knowledge now that humanity has lost it's collective mind and can only focus for 8 seconds or less on anything online. In a nutshell, marketers are pushed to create "content" that wraps itself around that rule like a snake...in order to grab the attention span derived mind of whomever it stumbles upon.

Now while this may be true, I have decided to be a rebel with a cause (a personality defect or attribute depending on your attitude) and buck that system. Meaning, I am not going to create anything for myself with that rule in mind.

While I can't change the world, I don't have to give in to the glaringly unhealthy way in which our minds are losing focus and ground everyday and jump on the bandwagon.

I also have a hard time believing that humans want this as I find more and more that people are getting tired of all the little things that the 8 second rule pushes us to do as marketers.

It's a matter of respect for humanity coupled with what is probably an extremely naive/glass is going to be half full again way of thinking that I strive to promote creating, marketing, and engaging with the intention on education and long term success.

I also think that all of this nonsense will at some point turn around. Why? Because we are hungry for knowledge, connection, and respect.

I happened upon a recent article where Gen Z is leaning towards throwing out their smartphones and jumping to archaic (yet so so freedom inducing) flip phones. I think this may show a positive sign that things are starting to tilt in the opposite way and that when we find something interesting, we have much more attention than 8 seconds.

The overall collective loss of attention coupled with so much dopamine from our online activities is not only affecting our ability to learn, understand, and comprehend information; it is also affecting the very way we relate and connect with each other.

Maybe Gen Z is going to turn this ship around. Don't you just love young people. I know I do. Let's give these kids a break, they have a lot to do.

Love,
The Uptown Secretary

References:
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/gen-zers-gobbling-flip-phones-rejecting-smart-phones

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6/9/2023 0 Comments

#SocialSecretary

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6/5/2023 0 Comments

#ArtWeLove

Behold. The Glory of Design.

These phones make me excited. They are nothing short of bada$$.

Of course, office equipment and supplies always have had a way to this girls hearts.

Phone's back in the day couldn't do anything other than phone home E.T. but they were cool as hell.

Smart phones may be able to give you access to all the info in the entire history of the world and as much cheap dopamine as your brain can possibly handle but they will never come close to anything like these gems.

No matter what cell phone cover or wallpaper I've tried; the beauty of design that old phones had is simply without compare.

Plus the fun part was, you could go out to play and leave the damn thing at home!

The design was all about form and color; and how they fit into our homes and our offices. Not our pockets.

They also were about function. The ability to connect people to each other. However, manners were mostly still in mind and we didn't call before a certain time or after a certain time. Nor did we expect each other to be available 24/7. Mostly, it connected us but didn't replace the real life time we spent together.

We knew we could leave a message but didn't expect a call back anytime soon.

I miss the days of the phone being more of a function to connect us on a high level but in not replacing the in person time that we spend together in life.

These phones also didn't include the ability to text either which I am becoming more and more convinced each day may be the downfall of humanity.

My Dream Phone

A Close Runner Up

And Of Course A Red Phone. Why? Because Red Is The Best Color Of Course.

And when you needed peace and quiet....it was so much easier to give it all to each other back then wasn't it?

"Oh...I'm So Sorry Did I Leave The Phone Off The Hook Again?"

Right when I was on my way out the door of this blog post, I ran into the final image. Nothing like being lost in the woods and running across this old relic. The game of it all was, you also had to have a quarter in your pocket. Life was such an adventure back then.

You had to ask yourself a very simple yet profound question as you reached into your pants pocket with a bit of trepidation. "Am I feeling lucky?"