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A collection of 175 issues

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

Nudging Prospects Along

In a moment of seasonal downtime, I read a marketeer's thoughts entitled does nudge theory have a future in 2023? I picked up on this in part because the inimitable nudger-in-chief was cited. Then I quickly realised how a quintet of said Rory Sutherland's insights duly contained within could be

What The Mere 8 Percent Know About Successful New Year Resolutions

Did you already have an inkling that a whopping ninety-two percent of us were perennial losers? That's apparently how many give up on New Year's Resolutions. What sets those that see them through - the roughly one in twelve triumphant - apart? Well, these past few days of "twixmas" (which

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

ADAPT & Chink to Trust

I know. Ten minutes you might never get back. Yet this clip - smacking of a college project pre-dating at least 2012 - is a thing of satirical Sales beauty. Team Ramrod helpfully here provide 'Part IV' of their guide, Personal Selling: A Trust-Based Approach. Like all great sales techniques,

Running The AI Brittle Test Across Your Sales Process

Here’s a paragraph from behind a subscription [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/12/06/artificial-intelligence-groupthink-exposes-old-bbc-delusions/] news site. Written recently by the paper’s business columnist [https://twitter.com/andreworlowski]; > A number of recent and very readable books for the layman describe how AI is falling far short

Investor Phone Scammers Control Tell

> “those who won’t be controlled won’t be sold” One of the frequent, shouted phrases of an American boiler-room investment manager. Who kept changing his name as each new dodgy operation opened. Scamming people over the phone here with supposed telecoms company shares and ghost Floridian property lots in

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 world