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There's quite the hype about today's streaming sci-fi series release around humanity's encounter with alien life of this title. It reminded me of the first framing of solution selling I came across. Miller-Heiman touting a 'complex sale' as any with you required to 'sell' to at least two people. Add

Following most of the dating advice on social media is a surefire way to end up single and either childless, or with children from people you're not married to. Exercise extreme caution. So much bad advice out there. — ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) March 14, 2024 Just as we entered a post-rona world,

Wisdom described by the Scot DJ who for years had the most listened to show (weekday mid-mornings) on British airwaves, as "very astute". It's not just radio for whom this applies. You can sub in a multitude of other arenas for 'music' above and be on the money too. Many

Peeved that a central public transport option on which I once occasionally relied was no longer in operation, I recently read on the madness that is the mass transit planner. There's a ton of surveys, research and suggestions on what makes for the optimum bus, train and tram network. Some

Broadsheet film journalist Tom Shone recently interviewed Christopher Nolan. As he has down the years for two decades. On occasion of the writer-director's latest movie, the lengthy Oppenheimer biopic, becoming unexpected critical and one billion dollar commercial smash. So he knows how the film-maker works. Revealing such intrigue as when

🚨 Activate the lizard-brain. Give a dopamine hit. Embrace subconscious problem-solving. There's a whole host of advice from neuro- (and pseudo-) scientists telling us how we can make ourselves more prepared, popular and productive when talking with others. Like within the trio of examples up-top, some are great, many are rot.

As an added bonus, following last week's post of how veteran English broadcaster Howard Hughes springs to life on-screen, here's insight from when he didn't seem to want to offend a guest. When broadly not quite sure of his research, he uses this self-confessed get-out gem; "How would you describe

More survey clickbait, luckily with a Sales angle (honest!). 🍺 Britons have 546 different words for 'drunk' according to researchers 🍷 Almost any word can be used to mean drunk as long as it ends with an '-ed' 🥃 Britons understand any such 'drunkonym' if it is preceded by 'I got completely ____'

Where's yours? Who's there? What's their brief? The term skunkworks originated with a team formed after WW2 at Lockheed Martin, working on classified, military projects. Famous examples elsewhere range from how the Americans sought to better the Soviets who started the space race, through more recently to Amazon's Kindle and