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Latest — Nov 28, 2022

Fax, Dems & 4-Mins Sold

Much hullabalah in England as the requirement enabling fax machine comms is announced as dropped. Oh those heady days when the sales office fax of thirty years back would fire up its distinctive screech, and all the farmers would race to it shouting 'order!' I myself recall the affirmation

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Their Present & Future Pin Code

Eight billion humans now inhabit the Earth. How long can it go on? Back on 20 Nov 2012, when our souls totalled roughly a billion fewer, reading the standard Greenwich meridian centred map conventionally from left to right, the late Hans Rosling tweeted; 1114 is the present PIN-code for the

Uncovering Their Connection Style

I do like the odd blog on the latest psychologists' way of slicing us up as a people. Sometimes, they have astonishing relevance to our qualification routines. Revealing a lens we ought make central to our procedures. Such as this delicious relationship 'makes or breaks' quintet discovered twelve months back

Big Ticket Presentation Design Agency Quote Cards

I've long blogged on Duarte's output. Accompanying an Oct '21 book launch, their media kit included the selection above. Ten tweetable 'quote cards'. My main thrust is to highlight their design. Yet before that, I can't help but note their content. I accept that I am among the 'converted'. Yet

Hybrid Hub Redesign

During the final quarter of '22, there's an increase in reports of how companies are evolving how they work. Earlier in the year, focus was on grabbing the hybrid dividend to the bottom-line. Namely offloading swathes of expensive office space expected to become, if not already seen to be, redundant.

Autocratic Sportswashing Reclamation

6,500 migrant workers reportedly died building the Qatar stadiums hosting the latest football World Cup. Then there's the harshest of police state jackboot should you be openly, you know, non-heterosexual, a democrat, or even a woman. And how can anyone truly trust any country which outlaws the simple pleasure

Hardcore Defined

O-oh. Our Bru Elon. His mid-November midnight missive to Twitter staffers featured this widely reported nugget; "Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance

ID Unsustainable Situations

Rudi Dornbusch, German economist whose final post was teaching at MIT, passed on plenty of acclaimed insight. Like this, later recounted by one of his students who became a Harvard professor; "Unsustainable situations go on for longer than you think. And when they collapse, that happens faster and harder than

Enduring Functional Partying

Breaking news alert may not be necessary. Men have fewer friends than women. Married men overwhelmingly leave it to their wives to curate their social diary. Men prefer (sometimes transient) groups, women more long-lasting one-on-one friendships. Apparently. Here's one such commentary I read around this. Drawing on Aristotle’s classification

Job Cull via Video Call

American newshounds NBC see their exclusive Facebook bonfire footage plastered across feeds this week. Above, its screenshot of Mark Zuckerberg. Announcing that because of his over-ambition, 11,000 of his staff are now to be fired. One in eight of his entire workforce. Wonder if he ever saw 2009 Oscar-nominated