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Intensity Over Targets & Figures

> "It's never based on targets and figures. It's about the intensity." So spoke cricket World Cup winning 50-over captain of England, Eoin Morgan. Reflecting on Friday's world record score against the Dutch. A total just two shy of the vaunted 500.

Letter Header Box

Top right of a formal business letter. Just underneath the letterhead logo of sender. Opposite side to recipient address. Seen this kind of treatment before? I got into the habit a while back adopting the technique of online mag pieces. Where they'd use the marker such as 5

Sales Jaunt Mismatches

> The 45 minutes I've just spent going through check-in and airport security made me dream of the good old days back in 2020 when you just clicked "Join Meeting". — Rory Sutherland (@rorysutherland) June 17, 2022 [https://twitter.com/rorysutherland/status/1537796746625138697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Adapting to Endure

Here's one semi-randomly selected chirp. Chin-stroking upon a major Venture Capitalist musing of our time. Namely Sequoia Capital's recent what you might label 'SOSA', or State of the Startup Address. Which takes the form of a slidedeck with accompanying 52-page speaker notes pdf [https:

Zara Fast Fashion Check

I note that Spanish global clothing giant Zara put certain shapes on garment labels and price tags. ◻ ▽ ○ What's more, is that some shoppers thought they'd figured out the 'code'. Referring possibly to how the sizes run. Whether they in reality wear bigger, smaller, or

The Interview Trick Elon Used That You Should Not

Elon Musk apparently personally interviewed Tesla's first one thousand employees. From janitors to rocket scientists. A 2015 biography claimed to reveal the interview question which was his favourite. Less a question, more a riddle; > You're standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one

Rory Knows You Shouldn't Just Chase The Dollar

> 🗣 "Any decision you make in your life that's purely for money, usually doesn't end up going the right way" Rory McIlroy says his stance on the LIV Series 'has been pretty clear from the start' 👇 pic.twitter.com/UvmyaGec2f [https://t.

When five people speak together, a sixth always has to die

Deepism courtesy of Nietzsche. Think of any workteam. Any business meeting. Or indeed, our video calls today. What's the optimum attendee crowd? This wisdom suggests it is 5. The philosophy apparently has several layers of meaning. As well as rabbit holes of potential etymology. [Take this random Reddit

Change Necessary, Progress Inevitable

An ad for something or other. With this cyber security outfit leveraging the kudos of Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield. You do wonder to what extent he is scripted by the producers, yet there are a few salient sentences we can use in our solution selling orbit. The shortform 60sec piece

Golf Club Marking Can DQ Your Bid

> Hideki Matsuyama gets DQ’d for a marking on the face of his fairway wood. The 📸 🐐 @gdm43pga [https://twitter.com/gdm43pga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] managed to snap this one of Hideki’s at Muirfield. Gotta assume the white areas, which were likely meant to frame the face and