Don't Buy What I'm Selling

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Musings on advertising, capitalism, humanity and the robots who know everything about you (from someone who used to live inside the machine).

About Lu Chekowsky

Emmy award winning advertising writer and Creative Director, currently writing a memoir about my life in advertising -- "DON'T BUY WHAT I'M SELLING" forthcoming from Little, Brown in 2026.

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