Know anything of BPR? Tom Peters (remember him?) was a huge proponent. Selling thousand-dollar-an-hour tickets to events triumphantly explaining how organisations needed serious hollowing out. Cut swathes of meaningless middle management and miraculously improve both your top- and bottom-line. Business Process Re-engineering became the vogue wrap-around term. I recall one

If you work all day long in software you’ve no idea how …. Messy Illogical Emotional Subjective Complicated Contextual Vague Non standardized Most work is Most jobs are largely about persuasion, motivation, relationships, fear, ego. Your logic doesn’t help — Tom Goodwin (@tomfgoodwin) February 13, 2026 I bet you'

1982. The Human League album Dare became the first electronic pop worldwide smash. The London branch of the Musicians' Union were not happy. They began a campaign to ban the synthesiser. That LP's Producer Martin Rushent became a figurehead against such moves. In echoes of today, he