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"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

Since spotting Sales value in the abrupt cancelled expansion of Europe's largest transport infrastructure construction this week, I learn of a foundational reason for the UK's inability to build anything big. Some cite the difference between English common law and the continental neighbours' Napoleonic principles. In the former, rights emanate

“Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on scepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.” The summation of fund manager 'legend', Sir John Templeton. That alone is worth a decent sales slide. In the very least, one annotated by striking out the stock market trader term 'bull markets' for

A freelance task platform initiative reached my inbox, bandwagonning the latest pop-sci juggernaut. Here's a trio of their straps to entice. AI, decoded amAIzing projects get into the (algo) rhythm Whilst this is marketing copy, our selling thrust might well take a tip from it. Let's set aside the pun-able