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Latest — Feb 12, 2026

Hot-Take Dating On Prospect First Meeting

"Introducing “hot-take dating”, the most efficient way to find love today". So stated someone choosing to use said method on a new date of her own. In the hope of getting if nothing else, then at least a decent article out of it. I know what you'

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Sales Offshooting

There's a step-change hitting the car trade. All those longstanding, storied global colossi that for lifetimes and beyond have sucked up the entire market are perhaps already falling towards oblivion. To casual observers, how difficult can it be? Scale up that phone battery which a handful of years

Pitch Close Rinse Repeat

Yes our self-appointed global metropolitan elite overlords yet again exposed for what they are. Downfall through "human vanity, greed, abuse and corruption". Widely denounced after release of three million files surrounding one utterly disgraced, super-connected American 'financier'. Journalists pore over such staggering source volume for a

Lower League Breakout Mindset

Daniel Farke is the newly promoted manager of a team trying to buck a tough trend. Namely avoiding immediate return to the division below via the EPL trapdoor. The portents aren't great. He attempted similar before. Twice. And got the sack. Yet this year, there's a

Failures From Pictures Not Showing The Issues

Twenty years back I enjoyed working with a client selling solutions for 'corporate building maintenance'. In my salesforce knowledge management capacity, I witnessed poor big ticket training company sessions, utterly misguided global Sales consultants programs, and internal resource fruitless struggles to shift the salesteam approach in a significant

How The New X Algorithm Exposes Dodgy Solution Selling

Final score = Σ (P(reaction_i) × weighting_i) Recognise that? It should be displayed to all at your next 'internal'. It's apparently the core of the recently published Twitter calc that decides what gets promoted on feeds. Where else to turn for explanation but the AI

I stop new enterprise-grade product sales from dying on the vine

AI told me the title above is how I should tell people what I do. Specifically related to my long-standing New Product Rescue skills. I asked how it might zhuzh my current 8-word mission. It added the suffix '-grade', and swapped out my ending of 'failing'

Death by Default: Which Google Slides Templates Are Actually Usable?

Google boasts how AI drives its OA, aka Workspace, apps. Yet there's a problem with this. Around the same time as London-based Institute for Public Policy Research found an alarming skew in the "narrow and inconsistent" sources used for bot answers, I noted the lack of

Swift Metric Attention

Here's a metric. As used by campaigner for what when I was school was heralded the world's fastest bird, the swift. I came across doughty Hannah Bourne-Taylor as she secured a particular victory for her favoured feathered friends [see foot]. For it seems they've

True OG Internet Dad's Sales Tips

And boy, they were aplenty. This month saw the death from cancer at just 68yo of whom many would know as the Dilbert cartoon strip creator, Scott Adams. He often spoke about how he was decent at certain standalone pursuits. What with having an Economics degree and MBA, working through