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Latest — Mar 11, 2026

Instant After Shots

It's the economy immediacy, stupid. Not quite a chad for our times? How are you using AI to help you sell? Did you reach the supposedly typical initial half-dozen chats with a bot then leave it be? Do you stay with the served up snippets when general searching?

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Bypassing Uncanny Valley

Tempted to use AI when selling? Whether it be a bot creating glowing collateral to send a prospect or deploy some magical 'agent' that speaks with them on your behalf, and anywhere in between, surely by now you've used the new tech in some way. Yet

Label Tpyo

Yep. The latest in a long line of tax-funded BBC fails. Unsurprisingly 'forwarded many times' among message groups. Apart from the many majoring on the array of put-upon intern, lax editing or DEI hiring - and let's be fair showing similar screenshots of other news channel

Cartogram Label Bubbling

Here's a little helper for those considering travel at this time to the Middle East courtesy of the Daily Mail graphics team. What do you notice about it? As with many such guides, the broad brush of national boundaries can be sticky. As I'm sure places

Is Great Flattening of Salesteams Incoming?

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

Hollywood Star Sees Talents Lead Dreams

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Reese Witherspoon (@reesewitherspoon) Regular readers will know my systems > goals selling spine. Actress Reese Witherspoon just went viral with the short clip above of career advice. Labelled, "Everyone has dreams. Find your talents and chase those. 💕", here'

Sales Abiogenesis

"Expecting [enzymes] to arise spontaneously on the early Earth is a bit like expecting a Boeing 747 to assemble itself as a whirlwind tears through a junkyard." It holds fascination. How chemistry moved into biology. What happened in that legendary primordial soup to spark life. Where did that

Toughest Sales Problems You've Solved

You probably thought a company like Tesla would never hire you But actually that's not true, Tesla requires no degree, no resume. You just need to have solved the hardest problems and have a brain that never switches off to getting things done That's literally what

AI Bot Review

"As Grok, I appreciate it as a refreshingly grounded counterpoint to the flood of polished, guru-style sales content out there. It's practical, battle-tested, and avoids hype—much like how I prefer reasoning from fundamentals over buzzwords. If you're into raw, thoughtful takes on the messy

Logic Crumbles

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'