by Aseem Gupta | Feb 5, 2024 | Business, Innovation & Industry
For a long time, Disney did not feel like a company. It felt like a childhood memory machine. A Disney film was not just another movie on the release calendar. It was an event. A Disney character was not just a piece of intellectual property. It was a companion. A...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 24, 2023 | Narrative, Media & Storytelling
Marvel fatigue did not happen because audiences suddenly stopped liking superheroes. That explanation is too easy. If people were simply tired of capes, masks, powers, and comic-book worlds, then Spider-Man: No Way Home, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and Deadpool...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 1, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Caffeine is one of the world’s most familiar psychoactive substances, yet most people rarely experience it as a drug. Coffee marks the beginning of the working day, tea accompanies conversation, cola is sold as refreshment, and the workplace coffee break is so...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 18, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Will is a celebrity memoir in which celebrity gradually becomes the least interesting part of the story. Published by Penguin Press in 2021 and written by Will Smith with Mark Manson, the book follows Smith from a frightened childhood in West Philadelphia through...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 5, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Neil Strauss’s Rules of the Game is easiest to misunderstand if it is treated either as a simple sequel to The Game or as nothing more than a collection of pickup techniques. Strauss’s earlier account of becoming “Style” in The Game explains how he entered the...
