Topic

proposals

A collection of 121 issues

CoI Cost of Inaction Business Case Angle

We all know RoI. Now welcome CoI. Moving from a projection of gain, to an audit of ongoing loss. In contemporary labelling. As cubrep, I sold what today'd be termed Enterprise systems. Amazing machinery that recorded ledgers and produced accounts at the press of a button. Spreading through

Swift Metric Attention

Here's a metric. As used by campaigner for what when I was school was heralded the world's fastest bird, the swift. I came across doughty Hannah Bourne-Taylor as she secured a particular victory for her favoured feathered friends [see foot]. For it seems they've

Getting Back of a Beermat Facts Straight

This campaign had its launch moment on feeds this week. Even featuring frontpage as tabloid splash. There's so much wrong with what's ruining the gift to the world that is the English pub. You know when a govt policy unites those all 'round the horseshoe

Shrouded Attributes

What You Really Get For 'x'. I remember in my cubrep days incredulous prospects insisting that my competitor - despite playing extremely fast and loose with their true capabilities - claimed to do what we did, and came in at the same price. As they were invariably the

Payback Per Pound

"Oxford University economist Daniel Susskind last year estimated that better train wi-fi could generate £376 million a year in productivity “savings”. Overlaying the industry costs of how much the exchequer would need to spend to fix on-train internet, the return on investment comes out at £49.70 for every

Boost Illusion

"Nobody buys efficiency. Ever" So runs advice handed down to each new generation of Enterprise reps. Riffing on the famed prediction of JM Keynes. Namely that due to inexorable technology leaps we should have long since been only required to work a 15-hr week. Feel like that today

Draft Collab Key Points Check

"I love illegal immigrants. Sue me. Sometimes I just go down to Dover and I see a ______ dinghy with 60 of them on and I go, ‘Come on, welcome! Women and children first. Oh, there are no women — just you lads, is it?’ " Armageddon, Ricky Gervais (2023) Buried

Pledge Backdrop For Brussels

Above is the top of a piece from The Times [sub'n req'd] of London. Reporting on the week's speech for eurocrats cloaked with liberal elite alignment yet presumably principally aimed at extending niceties to Microsoft. As partly evidenced by the chosen url of said

Tempted To Delve Into AI Prop Writing?

Over the Summer marking season, I noted a Uni philosophy lecturer had found a pattern in too many of the papers he was judging. Exeter's Dr Edward Skidelsky had found one give-away word; delve. In general such output, "is typical of the purple but empty prose that

Artist 30-Word Declaration Against AI Theft

“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” AI is robbing creators. This week, over ten thousand and counting of their number took a stand to arrest the theft.