Stephen Walker – Opinionated Ad Man, Writer and Author
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The world worships the wrong people and here’s the proof.
“Your best men die in alleys under a sheet of paper while your worst men get statues in parks for pigeons to shit upon for centuries.” – Charles Bukowski You know me. I’m a big ol’ poetry and prose nerd. This quote from Betting on the muse (Page 70) hits pretty hard. Especially if you…
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Nostalgic presence
So the last few days I’ve been watching some classic late 90s / early 2000s films. It’s like getting hit by a freight train of nostalgia when you think that we did things like wait to record a song on cassette tape. Or like when you had to choose which VHS tape you were going…
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I’ll die on this hill
But honestly. In a lot of the cases. Pets are just better than humans. Pets don’t ghost you. They don’t slide into your DMs with passive aggressive bullshit. They just… exist. Pure, unfiltered loyalty wrapped in fur or scales or whatever the fuck you’ve adopted. (That reminds me. I need to get another snake…) Think…
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Modern day promptstitution
Peter picked a pack of perfect professional prompts… (Or so he thought) A mega pack containing 5000+ prompts to take your online business to the next level! To save all of your entrepreneurial woes with a simple copy and paste! It’s going to 10x his income when he gets to using it all… …and it…
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The Ministry of Perpetual Moan Suppression
Date: 11 July 2025 (Wait. Scratch that, citizen. It’s 2047 in the Reckoning of the Rain Lords. Time slips like a soggy teabag in this heat choked hellscape…) You. Yes, you, hunkered in your fog shrouded flat, peering out at the sky like it’s personally betrayed you. You sip your tepid tea, that bitter brew…
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Bradley Bliss is my spirit animal
My buddy Brandon runs a TikTok account which posts some incredibly unhinged satirical/parody/rage-bait posts. You might’ve seen his videos do the rounds on all of the platforms because it shows you how easy it is to trigger people in general. And triggering people seems to be the number one way to go viral. And as…
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Everything is disguised as personal development
So yesterday my brain said no about being smart. Which is totally cool btw. We can’t be expected to be operating at 100% all the time and that’s what seems to be happening out in the real world all too often. We’re over exposed and overstimulated to such a massive degree that we feel lost…
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Brain said nope
I was going to write an email about how entrepreneurship is just cleverly disguised personal development. But when I sat down to write it. My brain decided nope. I don’t want you writing smart stuff right now. I want you to talk about the cat that nearly followed you home this morning. So this is…
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Monday eh?
You wake up one Monday. Which is today… Because time is a flat circle and you’re trapped in it. You feel like Sisyphus with a French press. There’s a meme making the rounds again. Something about how if you just stop buying coffee out, you’ll retire by thirty five. Maybe thirty six if you’re a…
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Everything is energy.
Sometimes we need to sit down and have a proper moan. Life is frustrating a lot of the times. Especially when things go wrong. And as much as it’s good to think positively and be optimistic about things. We can’t ignore the negative and dark side of the emotions we feel. After all… We’re governed…
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The Silly Goose Society is back
That’s the email… Okay okay. Not quite… So. You want to know about the Silly Goose Philosophy? Keep reading. Now before we get started you need to know something about Geese. They’re assholes. Pure, unfiltered, honking chaos machines that’ll chase you across a parking lot for looking at them sideways. But they’re also brilliant at…
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I nearly died today
If you know anything about England. You’ll know that we don’t have the luxury of walk in showers. That being said. The bath that doubles as a shower is always good fun until it’s not. Now most adults (definitely not me lol) would have one of those grippy mat things to stop you from slipping,…
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The slasher film secret that makes readers stay until the last word
Let me tell you about the time I watched a room full of marketing dickweasels discover that fear sells better than sex. It involves summer camp murder and a metric fuckton of coffee because I got stuck travelling down to London and we stopped at Wolverhampton for an hour. Good old fashioned British transport lol.…
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The creative death march
You want to know how fucked we are? (pretty fucking fucked) I keep getting tagged in tweets about how great A.I. is and well… So here’s yet another take on artificial intelligence. It’s like that friend who memorised the entire encyclopedia but doesn’t understand why jokes are funny. Sure, it can probably spew facts faster…
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Shitposting for fun and profit
Let’s talk about the fine art of shitposting… And honestly most people’s social media presence is boring as hell. We’ve all been fed the same corporate bullshit smoothie as everyone else… Which is basically; “Stay professional.” “Don’t rock the boat.” “Use proper grammar.” And usually it leaves you with zero engagement, no comments, and a…
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Do not go gentle into this British night
Someone up there is using England as their own personal microwave. Whether it’s Aliens, God or if we’re in some simulation like The Matrix. It’s been hot. Not nice hot. Flesh is slowly cooking into a nice medium rare kind of hot. And… as much as us Brits like to moan about it being too…
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As I grow. So do you.
So after my original list got nuked. (4732 awesome souls) I found a new “home” aka email service provider that allowed me genuine freedom of speech, which was also created by one of my favourite marketers of the last, I dunno. 20 years? Ben Settle. I was also lucky to grab a consultation call with…
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Turn up for yourself.
I wasn’t going to write an email today. Truth be told this week has been meh at most. Just loads of niggly bits of stupid shit cropping up that makes you want to opt out of doing anything productive. The kind of petty annoyances that make you want to crawl back into bed and tell…
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How to not lose 20 years of your life
A long time ago I nearly killed myself multiple times doing really stupid shit. Quad biking, down hill mountain biking and being tackled shoulder first into a steel goal box during a hocky match can definitely do a number on your flesh vessel. From broken and fractured wrists, to a crushed shoulder that I can…
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Unfry your dopamine receptors.
Nothing sucker punches the dopamine goblin quite like dropping your carcass into a chair and wrenching the cap off a frost slick bottle of bubbly brain fuel… (Iced latte before 8pm is a good idea lol) Followed by reading, your very own, palm sweat absorbent printed thingamajig… Magazine, book, ransom note looking love letter… Anywho……
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Roll the Dice
Here’s one of my favourite poems by ol’ Bukowski When you’re really in need of a little kick up the ass. Read this if you’re going to try, go all theway.otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all theway. this could mean losing girlfriends,wives, relatives, jobs andmaybe your mind. go all the…
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Facebook just yeeted their empire.
Imagine this… You wake up, stretch, sneeze twice, open the dopamine fuelled sadness rectangle, and… WHAM Your precious Mega Titan Hustle Bro Facebook group (the one with seven figures worth of thumb sup zombies) has vanished. Well I’d usually say this was a joke but it wasn’t. And people are losing their shit. I was…
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They want fancy sprinkles. But what they need is bread.
I’ve had enough espresso to stun a yak and I’m about to go off. So buckle up. Today has been a day. And looks like it’s gonna be even MORE of a day with the pending war that’s about to unfold… Don’t click a way though. This isn’t another preachy “here’s how you 10x your…
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We are members of the human race
I’ve just finished re-watching one of my favourite films with Robin Williams… And as much as the world is going to hell in a hand basket in real time, This scene always makes me sit back and reflect We’re only here for a short time. We need to find and do what makes us happy.…
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You didn’t search for this. It FOUND YOU.
Hope you all have an amazing weekend. Here’s a little reminder that we need sometimes… (I’d definitely suggest watching the video but the words are just as powerful) Come back by Chase Hughes “There was so much wonder. Joy didn’t need a reason. The laughter echoed in summer evenings. Excited just because the sun came…
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The Human Centipede…
Okay. I might’ve had you for a second. I was going to write about that viscerally gross film, but hey. It’s Friday and I didn’t want to gross you out cause the weather has been nice… So I’ll be using Cardistry as the starting point and why you need that level of creative frustration in…
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OH SWEET BABY JESUS, THEY’RE GIVING AI TO THE CHILDREN
Today’s heat is either making me see things, but I do think we’re half way there to a full scale robo apocalypse… A ropocalypse? So picture this. And yes this is modern day nightmare fuel… You know Mattel, right? (yeah, the Barbie people) They have just jumped into bed with OpenAI. Because apparently what every…
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I can’t believe I’ve had to write about this
Ever now and then some lost soul books a call with me and we shoot the shit for an hour. This weekend just gone was one of them… (Right before my LoTR and HP marathon) The simple question which I got hit with which was: “How do I make my content more ME as an…
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This is a Hip Hop appreciation email
Usually when I’m doing any type of writing. The music I listen to hasn’t got vocals in it at all. Why? Cause when I get in the flow of things, then lyrics end up being peppered in and around whatever it that I’ve written. But today was just a nice chill day going through an…
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Sanitised writing is a slow death.
And you know it. Deep down, you do. So I’m gonna mention transgressive fiction. It’s the writing that makes you think “Look at this mess. It’s yours. Deal with it.” It’s not gore porn for wannabe nihilists, despite what your cousin who binge watches Euphoria might think. It’s not about upping the shock factor until…