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Latest — May 28, 2023

Business Case Mood Board

Mood board for tomorrow’s column pic.twitter.com/2HY0loBxoE — Andrew Orlowski (@AndrewOrlowski) May 7, 2023 Here's a tweet from a London broadsheet columnist. Often with tech bias, mainly writing on general commercial innovation and business life improvement. In his own words; "My writing asks: why do we make machines

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Sticky Note On-Screen Comms

There was no source attributed underneath this image's appearance on London broadsheet The Telegraph recently. Nor could Google Lens provide one. Which is a shame, 'cos it's a cracker. I embed/link to it above as for pretty much all video calls I run, I myself, and suggest of those

Number Slide When Headline Guaranteed

Our latest estimates show around 606,000 more people came to the UK than left in 2022: ▪️ total long-term immigration was around 1.2 million ▪️ emigration was 557,000 ➡️ https://t.co/04Rbgiv12v pic.twitter.com/H4ne9A3f3p — Office for National Statistics (ONS) (@ONS) May 25, 2023 UK media worked itself

Lethal Autonomous Pitch Systems

Mid-23. Another day, another doomsday proclamation from those anti-AI. Well, perhaps more of the 'we must control it' variety. As if more regulation is ever the actual answer. Think recent banking crises, escaped viruses and the land grabs of oppressive regimes. Anyway. A group of medical professionals - if that's

Declinism Stymie-ism

"Declinism takes many forms – but let’s start with the most pernicious: failing to recognise what we’re great at doing." The sign-off from a London broadsheet tech columnist recently about Britain's world leading space capabilities. Ones which the populace, including policy makers, seem oblivious too. Stated as a crying

Your Guardiolismo

The above graphic comes from the London broadsheet The Telegraph. It charts the first-half of what the Spanish press later described as an "earthquake" suffered by Real Madrid at the hands of Manchester City in the UCL SF, 2nd Leg "thrashing". Stats from the opening 45-minutes of this astonishing masterclass

What The Overarching Threat Is Not

Here follows a widely shared excerpt from a speech this week by a backbench Westminster MP, Miriam Cates. Denuded (as far as I safely can, given her stance appears "not popular on either the small government right or the culturally radical left"), of political horseshoe setting in order to elevate

Why Your Video Selling Is Not Unleashing Productivity Gains

Remember when personal computers made us so efficient we only had to work one day a week? AI will be like that. — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 16, 2023 This tweet above is one of legion recalibrations on the measure of AI. Many such satire tends to riff on the Solow

Can Friendship Therapy Speak Adapt To Selling?

Much ado earlier in the year got sparked by NY clinical psychologist, Arianna Brandolini. She aimed to help people grasp the nettle when it comes to ending a friendship. Under the handle answeranxiety, her suggested script was seemingly put forward as an alternative to the oft-unsatisfactory letting things fade away

Putin's Crash 'N Burn

For all the talk of the inexhaustible supply of meat for the Donbas grinder, innovative arms (such as 'vaunted' hypersonic missiles & glide bombs), and plentiful cash from cut-price oil sales to dubious buyers, Russia suffer battleground humiliation in Ukraine. The above graphic is the title card from an 8-minute explainer