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Is Your Prospect California or Morocco?

Where I am currently, a new passenger rail line just opened in England's North East. An area seemingly forever starved of investment, it created quite the buzz. But not for why you'd hope. The track was already there. Used by freight. Going strong sixty years. Stations existed at the termini

Tempted To Delve Into AI Prop Writing?

Over the Summer marking season, I noted a Uni philosophy lecturer had found a pattern in too many of the papers he was judging. Exeter's Dr Edward Skidelsky had found one give-away word; delve. In general such output, "is typical of the purple but empty prose that ChatGPT produces", he

How Many Reasons?

Northern hemisphere mock exam season for youngsters looms over the festive period. I fondly remember writing the History essays of my schooldays. Its exam strangely always last in the rota. I always loved the subject, despite being a maths addict back then. One key realisation came from examiner rubric. You'd

The Goldfinger Law

How to spot fake trend articles in the press: look for the weak third example. Two things happening simultaneously is a coincidence. Coincidences aren't news. So journalists stretch to find a third example, however weak, so they can call it a trend. — Paul Graham (@paulg) August 6, 2024 As a

Every Sales Office Needs A Skills Guru

I embed above the stock image chosen by London's The Times heralding the start of what I learn to be Skills Week, earlier in the year. I guess it must be of an actual, working office space. Yet hardly seems credible. Certainly no self-respecting creative, busy or even Sales office.

Weird Persuasion

Taking Sales pitch tips from electioneering feels fraught with hazards. Take the Democrat Party candidate in the 2016 US presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton and her minders thought they'd gain from labelling their opponent's supporters 'deplorables'. See how that turned out. The same party eight years on, mid-way through 2024 suddenly

Dodgy Round Trips

Well. The conspiracists are having a field day. At the expense of family tragedies. Yet the coincidences are hard to ignore. Connected fatalities within the space of a shocking few hours. A jogger killed by a hit and run in Cambridgeshire. A luxury yacht sunk by freak 5am tornado-cum-water-spout or

Podcast for the Mind and Soul

Almost twenty years ago I coined the nom de guerre, salespodder. Since then, it's mainly been a nom de plume, for this very blog. Back then blogging and, following on just a little behind, podcasting were both pre-mainstream. Whereas the former - apart from here, Sales Winners! - has diverged

Mapping in Circles

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map. pic.twitter.com/WMd8fkdphY — Tube Map Central (@TubeMapCentral) August 6, 2024 At inception an all-time classic in diagrammatic

Rostrum to State Room Week's Trio of Remote Work Zoomscapes

Slava Ukraini. In the video address above following their incursion to capture a thousand square kms of invader turf, Zelensky tells his fellow countryfolk, and the world, that 'the war is coming home to Russia'. You suspect his desk is at the window as the daylighting looks decent. In footage