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how long can a rebranding go

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2013.10.01

We put the finishing touches on a rebranding effort at work, today. It's a project that we've been working on quite a long time indeed, with two steps forward on a given subject followed a surely by one step seemingly backward. But there's nothing wrong with doing things the long, hard, stupid way when you're trying to create something of lasting value. In fact, it seems to be required. All the right internal stakeholders are certainly invested in the new product name, new company logo, etc.

I sure learned a lot from all of this.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl