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Real World Brutalism

Britain’s Brutalist buildings flagbearer, Owen Luder, died recently aged 93. Obituaries focused on the generally reviled over-powering concrete monstrosities the architect imposed on townscapes across the land. For all their ribbon-cutting day glamour of the future, they certainly did not age well. Consigning him to membership of The Rubble

Toe-Tapping Deal-Signing Algorithms

No algorithm is omniscient. You don’t need to be a fan of dystopian near-future sci-fi to know this. To slavishly follow the diktats of an algorithm can often mean missing out on a genuine moment of game- (& life-?) changing opportunity. Here’s 2021 autobiographical musing of an 81yo

3 Public Speaking Cures From A Mind Coach

note the difference lighting can give you on your video call; (L) as presented, (R) brightened post-broadcast with filter (& feel the perils of a high-back ‘exec’ chair…) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You do worry when someone describes themselves as a mind coach, don’t you. Don MacPherson was talking all things ‘monkey

Tell-Tale Investment Scam Sign & Your Pitch

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/midlifers-have-become-sitting-ducks-fraudsters/] As the piece these bullets above are from then caveats; “Not all of these tips work for all investment scams”. Before detailing ever more worrying developments by such despicable, cunning criminals. Let’s go beyond the typical, ‘if it sounds too good

Superstar Phone Video Backdrop

Adele. A name known to all. About to plaster the public psyche with the imminent release of her fourth album ‘era’; 30. Or more accurately, a room in which Adele sat. As she spoke with her adoring faithful. She broadcast her, so she said, first ever Instagram Live over the

Who's Your Big Dosser?

> This is the stool @Tyson_Fury [https://twitter.com/Tyson_Fury?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] sat on between rounds!! @BTSportBoxing [https://twitter.com/BTSportBoxing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #FuryWilder3 [https://twitter.com/hashtag/FuryWilder3?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/7b17nNFsJo [https://t.co/7b17nNFsJo]

3 Political Party Conference Leader Showpiece Pointers

The UK’s political calendar has long had a three-week window built in for the various annual party conferences. The arrival of the Autumn equinox heralding a shindig of speeches, fringe events and chance to thank the door-knocking grassroots faithful. Convention has it that the ruling party gets to go

4 Word Business Plan Slide

I recently came across a start-up [http://mmhmm.app] in the ‘video communication’ space. In twelve months just past, going from idea through prototype, beta release and $100 a year subscription launch whilst securing $100m [https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/07/mmhmm-raises-100m-which-is-a-fun-thing-to-say-to-people-who-dont-follow-tech/] funding and a possible $400m valuation. It helps

Whenever You Hear Prospects Utter Should, Will or Expected

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/doomsday-covid-models-badly-wrong/] I have blogged many times down the years about the scourge of following forecasts as fact. It has proven itself a disease which afflicts many a great Proposal with an unnecessarily yet fiendish insurmountable barrier. One main way of getting around the

Tetracolon COP

Or hendiatris+1. One step beyond a tricolon. A rhetorical scheme [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocolon] with four elements. In the oratory of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he chose this as the way to ensure headlines followed his recent address to the Youth COP26 conference; > Coal Cars