Topic

forecast funnel pipeline

A collection of 202 issues

Liking Gap Reset

The Liking Gap is what psychologists refer to as the difference between your perception of how much someone likes you, and the reality. Would you believe it, experiments find that in the workplace, we tend to under-estimate this. In other words, people often 'like' us more than we think. From

Q Factor Gain Rate

"[in Dec '22, a Californian lab] smashed all previous records, crossing the breakeven ratio by reportedly generating some 2.5 megajoules from 2.1 megajoules of power from 192 giant lasers. That is a ‘gain’ rate or ‘Q’ factor of 1.2 from fusing hydrogen nuclei into a heavier helium.

SF9 Puzzlin'

Ever stop and say to yourself, what I really need in my life right now is a 7-piece K-pop boyband? Me neither. Whoever the combo SF9 are, the promo for their latest single, Puzzle, appears to have been made by someone appreciative of the case wall. Entertaining because such focal

Beige Flags Pink Flags Red Flags

Up on yer must-know terms for 2023? One such phrase new to me is the beige flag. I reckon we're familiar with the red flag. The alarm that shouts, "stop!" Yet now spreading from the often hazardous world of dating into all other fields of relationships are flags of colour

Relative Age Effect

In news that will be no surprise to those born during the N Hemisphere Summer, young sports teams are comprised predominantly of those born in the Autumn. This is due to the seasonal nature of the sporting calendar. Coinciding as it does, to run alongside the academic year of September

Uncovering Their Connection Style

I do like the odd blog on the latest psychologists' way of slicing us up as a people. Sometimes, they have astonishing relevance to our qualification routines. Revealing a lens we ought make central to our procedures. Such as this delicious relationship 'makes or breaks' quintet discovered twelve months back

Enduring Functional Partying

Breaking news alert may not be necessary. Men have fewer friends than women. Married men overwhelmingly leave it to their wives to curate their social diary. Men prefer (sometimes transient) groups, women more long-lasting one-on-one friendships. Apparently. Here's one such commentary I read around this. Drawing on Aristotle’s classification

Sales on Easy Mode

Commercial opportunity is currently claimed to narrow. Post-lockdown blues, 'strongmen' sabre rattling, and inflationary supply chain constrictions bite down hard on economic conditions. Not to mention the generational chance spurned for structural reform in the GFC aftermath of 2008 seemingly coming home to roost. Is this the reason behind the

Rebel Rousing Spreadsheet

The answer to the above, in a word, is "no". Remarkable. The country of my birth has gone round the bend. Who knew today was the day? Amid the political tumult of (shortest ever serving) Prime Ministerial resignation, there sit plenty of solution selling steers. I highlight one by way

DOTMLPF Analysis

Courtesy of heroic Ukrainian resistance at the evil hands of the worst of humanity, I learn of this framework for assessment of capabilities to accomplish any particular mission. Ungainly pronounced dot-mill-pf, I believe. A method from the American military. Not necessarily an organisation renowned for its must-copy systems and approach.