Some Assembly Required*

Some Assembly Required*

The Bucket Hat Experiment

Christopher Smith
Mar 19, 2026
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Most brand storytelling still works the same way it did twenty years ago. Big ideas. Big budgets. Long production cycles. But generative tools are quietly changing something more fundamental than production speed.

They are changing the role of experimentation in storytelling.

Instead of asking whether an idea is worth producing, we can now explore ideas q…

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