Mark O'Brien
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I’m a business owner. My company — O’Brien Communications Group (OCG) — is a B2B brand-management and marketing-communication firm that helps companies position their brands effectively and persuasively in industries as diverse as: Insurance, Financial Services, Senior Living, Manufacturing, Construction, and Nonprofit. We do our work so well that seven of the companies (brands) we’ve represented have been acquired by other companies. OCG is different because our business model is different. We don’t bill by the hour or the project. We don’t bill by time or materials. We don’t mark anything up. We don’t take media commissions. We pass through every expense incurred on behalf of our clients at net. We scope the work, price the work, put beginning and end dates on our engagements, and charge flat, consistent fees every month for the terms of the engagements. I’m also a writer by calling and an Irish storyteller by nature. In addition to writing posts for my company’s blog, I’m a frequent publisher on LinkedIn and Medium. And I’ve published three books for children, numerous short stories, and other works, all of which are available on Amazon under my full name, Mark Nelson O’Brien.
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Rotten With Perfection
"We create new things, new people, and new ways to hate with every generation, across all nationalities and geographies. The evidence piles up, right along with the bodies." ...
Giving Without Season
"I am deeply and forever grateful for what they've given, and for their having reached me on one, cold winter afternoon, while I, as always, was deep in self-absorption." ...
Ain’t I Pretty?
"Depending on the source you choose, there are between five (WebMD) and 21 symptoms (Mayo) Clinic) of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD because where would we be without abbreviations?)." ...
A Higher Calling
"As we create ever more electronic connections, so we abandon our human ones. As we separate, so we fail to share. As we worship the physical, so withers the spirit. As we defy rites of passage, so we fight our inevitable passing. As we create more fears to fight, so we forsake joy. That price is too high. And we have a higher calling." ...
Here’s Looking At You Kid
"As incredible as this may sound, it turns out all the UFOs that have visited Earth have been from the same planet." ...
What’s Worse, Losing or Giving Up?
"The question in the title of this post doesn’t matter. It can be considered purely rhetorical because we’re doing both. And we didn’t have to do either." ...
People Are People, Too
"Hindsight, foresight, and our ability to make decisions are some of the aspects and abilities that make us human." ...
I Hate Crime
"To put it another way, creating more hate crimes won’t create less hate. We’ve been proving that since 1968, to say nothing of every year that preceded that one. Come on, people. We can do better — and count better things — than this." ...
An Open Letter to Chip Chippendale
"Since you can probably scrape Google and Wikipedia faster than an army of monkeys, I suppose darn near anything is algorithmically possible. And I suppose we’re about to find out." ...
My Chat with ChatGPT
“If I didn’t know better, I’d think you have a microchip on your shoulder, Chat. Growing up, were you abused by your motherboard?” ...