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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:22

SXSW: From Writer’s Room to Integrated Technologies

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And it's up to you from there to make that happen. If you find a place that you're comfortable with, you could always branch out. The beautiful thing about advertising, there are so many companies coming out of the pandemic and so many people at brilliant companies branching off, doing their own thing Sky's the limit with wherever you go. So I would just say make sure you guys have the same cultural, the same work ethic and go or makes you happy

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Dustin Thomas
@DustinMThomas · 1:16

Career pivot

And each job was better and better and better. And I am at a place now with our two, with a great group of people who want to grow and move into the future, and they just don't know what that looks like yet. And we're all working together to create what that future looks like. So I just kind of been lucky, if you will
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:23

Day in the life

So can you give us a day in the life of your life right now? So we understand ultimately what you guys create for the layperson to understand what does art to integrated create and like a day and how you as a sort of creative person show up and like, we have a sense of your life just so we can visualize it
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Swell Team
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Dustin Thomas
@DustinMThomas · 3:19
And that comes in the form of user experience analyses, developing brand identities, developing platforms and experiences in the form of websites, microsite experiences, product design for applications. Now that I'm on board, I'm going to try to do whatever I can to help push us into web three and the multiverse experience nonfungible tokens, right? I mean, they're all huge. They're not going to go anywhere. They're following the same path as when I was a kid in the 80s
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:02

Translation from possibility to reality

It's a very specific skill to be able to help a layperson know what the potential is. Can you talk a little bit about that translation process? And specifically, can you talk about how people don't sometimes know what not only what's possible, but they don't know what they need? And that's a whole world of a skill set that I'm really interested in hearing from you. You're a writer. You're a communicator. That's your skill set
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Dustin Thomas
@DustinMThomas · 2:11

The great translator

But at the same time, trying to leave that trust in my team is what I've learned over a long period of time that we're all part of the idea. So if I can drop an idea and then someone can pick it up and then someone else can pick it up and keep going with it, and then we've all put our skin in the game, if you will. That's mostly when we get the best ideas
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