A woman with tattoos on her arms and shoulder, wearing a colorful tropical shirt and black shorts, sitting on a vintage black and wooden sofa, reading a beige Field Notes notebook, with a yellow retro rotary phone beside her, in a rustic room with peeling wall paint and yellow curtains.
A yellow field guide book with red text reading 'Field Guide' on the cover.

Pull up a log, pass the snacks, and crack open the creative canteen! We’re trading stories by the campfire. Think trail mix for your brain: part education, part inspiration, part "oops, we tried that so you don’t have to." Welcome to the wild (and slightly weird) side of purpose-driven business.

Field Notes

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Rethinking business in the age of surveillance capitalism

The old marketing playbook promised certainty: post daily, follow the algorithm, stay neutral, and growth would follow. But that world is gone. Social platforms now function less like community spaces and more like surveillance machines—selling our data, censoring dissent, and rewarding compliance. Small business owners and creatives are still told to “just follow the rules,” but those rules don’t just fail us now—they bind us to the very systems dismantling our freedoms. The game has changed. Our marketing must change too.

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