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The constant battle between making money for the sake of it or the pursuit of betterment with purpose as chief focus can unsurprisingly be seen in the field of AI. I remain baffled by these two positions' jostling. As for me, I discovered early that when you do something primarily

I came across the phrase of this post title as recounted by a couple who sold their data company ten years in. It relates to the three-ish years of readying their exit. When interviewed, Data Shed co-founder, Anna Sutton, revealed in The Times; The phrase I kept hearing throughout the

When it comes to frameworks of this type, my experience matches that of Elon Musk. As he tweeted in '22; “ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.” Well-meaning initiatives flounder to the point of fatally undermining the true endeavour through misguided, misdirected mission-creep. As

The International Monetary Fund is one of those nebulous quangos that both exerts undue influence across our world whilst simultaneously being wealthily rewarded for abject failure. C'est L'Elite. Their latest debacle revolves around national economic output predictions. To co-opt the famous phrasing of the much missed, peerless Hans Rosling, a

Here's a definition for you; Synchronicity, the “acausal connecting principle”, or Meaningful Coincidences. I remember as a lad reading a jumble found paperback of Fleming's Bond caper, Goldfinger. I was taken with how the novel's chapters were broken down into three sections. I have used them as a Sales slide

"Everyone is primarily interested in one of three things. To motivate them, all you need do is discover which one drives them most; power, money or autonomy." From the experience of Rory Sutherland. Which he shared in the interests of promoting the under-valued and usually ignored quality of autonomy. Note

Dr Robert Waldinger is the current custodian of the world's longest-running study into what makes us happy. As director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which has been running for 84 years, the professor of psychiatry at Harvard medical school and a practising psychiatrist has coined a snappy way