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"Never ask an accountant to spend any money. They can’t answer a creative question.” That is the experience, as reported in London's The Times 25 October 23 'dairy', of 80s pop music impresario (and train enthusiast), Pete Waterman. His disparaging remarks were in context of the UK government cutting

Who doesn't love a good origin story. I just read about [behind London's Times paywall] how an optician who for twenty years thought he could better the big brands finally start-up his dream. As a buyer of such wares myself, I warmed to the USP; same-day glasses. Here's the first

"One of the many lessons out of all this is starting on day one it was from the very first moment, assume you're going to succeed and don't do anything that gets in the way." The thoughts of Ken Mattingly, Nasa astronaut and famed lifesaver of the Apollo13 moon mission.

"At certain Silicon Valley parties, tech bros have started introducing themselves with their names and “p(doom)” numbers, their personal estimates of the likelihood AI will destroy humanity." Trendspotting of London Times columnist James Marriott last week. Expressed as numeric probability anywhere between zero and one, it could be a

I came across this military adage from a former British army officer. It is apparently Napoleon’s dictum of war. Who did have at least his final six years on St Helena to mull that one over. In the modern-day context that we "will probably cite Ukraine as one of

The 5am Club. Runaway 2018 self-help lifehack manual by Robin Sharma. I am not buying it. It comes from a long line of quasi-science pop authors all preferring the morning lark route beats that of the night owl. To achieve “productivity, prosperity, performance and impact” on the scale of “superstars,

What is the opposite of a life coach? More downtime doomscrolling, another supposedly boundary pushing clickbait slant on personal improvement. In part I clicked through in the slim hope I'd learn about a new emerging cohort of 'coaches'. Having magically unearthed how they can enrich lives. Freeing the frustrated from

ꜰᴏʙᴏ; the fear of being obsolete. The current infestation in the workplace sprouting from ꜰᴏᴍᴏ. This appears coined in the light of the recent explosion into the worker psyche of AI. Yet applies equally to any tech-driven threat to the little piece of commerce that we've managed to carve out

“There are only so many ways you can overcome a challenge . . . I don’t believe in unique selling points; it’s often about unusual selling points. All you’ve got to do is have multiple unusual things that you do that not everyone’s doing. So that’s mainly what