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Latest — Apr 5, 2025

Oversize Presentation Board Makes Global Waves

Who made this chart? Aesthetically pleasing 📊 pic.twitter.com/RviMBMW6cR — vanG0AT (@VanG0xH) April 2, 2025 Seldom can a presentation aid garner so much global media coverage. Let us, if we can, separate the message from the medium. For I am known to bang on about this particular tactic once in

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How Many Sales Levels of Abstraction Can You Handle at Any One Time?

“One particular talent stands out among the world-class programmers I’ve known—namely, an ability to move effortlessly between different levels of abstraction.” — Donald Knuth — Computer Science (@CompSciFact) March 28, 2025 The concept of multiple levels of abstraction wasn't born through coders. There's long been the thought of stages of

Video Number Line

"Honey bees have recently been shown to count accurately up to five, understand the concept of zero and also order groups of objects left to right. Scientists call this the “mental number line” — whereby you start on the left with a small number and count up to the right towards

What Makes You Comfortable?

According to a survey just conducted in England by one of the world's Big Banks, the salary you need to be 'comfortable' is staggering. £213,000. That's almost double what the lower threshold of the country's Top One Percent earn (at 1.775x £120k). And, depending on what you take

You Donut!

Yup https://t.co/ECzfdjWewo — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 20, 2025 So I hear that April 2nd this year is to be Liberation Day for America. The day they impose a swathe of trade tariffs. Apparently claiming they're merely redressing the imbalance. With friend and foe alike being less open

Swaps for Change

Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Wednesday 26 March https://t.co/GpS5H21HER pic.twitter.com/Dky7LqVem5 — Financial Times (@FT) March 25, 2025 Dirty word, 'change'. From my earliest cubrep days, it was impressed upon me by the experienced sages around my first salesteam to try

Exposing Issue Smoking Gun

Here's a recent still from a phone-recorded speech in a S African provincial legislature. An elected representative by the name of Jack Bloom. He delivers an excoriating list of factors, any one of which alone would raise more than an eyebrow, but together state his compelling case against the foul

What's Missing?

“The identity, the clarity, the rhythm, the repetition of patterns, the freedom of player, the expression of player, the hunger. They were more afraid to drop out of the tournament in my observation than having the excitement and hunger to win.” The assessment of fresh-in-post England football manager, Thomas Tuchel.

Countering Competitor Canard

"It reminds me of the time I helped plan the Moon Landings whilst producing one of David Bowie's albums and launching the Big Mac." I chuckled reading this comment the other day. One of many all along similar lines. Deriding the plausibility of a mainstream media article. Supposedly recounting the

Next Word Leap

In the rarefied air of the AI tech bros, the recent astonishing entry of a Chinese ex-stock-trader predictor turned bot-supreme punctured the bubble. Cheap as chips. As it (almost) turned out. Despite initial bargain basement costing sleights, the achievement of DeepSeek on a comparative shoestring has the current self-appointed sector