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A collection of 95 issues

Process Tree Monospace Clarity

Given labyrinthine friction of legacy airline carrier systems, how's this graphic for making sense of daydream viability for leftfield far-flung flight itineraries. Served me unprompted by AI. In this case as I was looping through their associated travel portal, Gemini. Credit where it's due. I found

Taking Your Savoir-Faire Beyond The Bot

'AI is far from replicating savoir-faire, the ‘backbone’ of many high-fashion brands' Headhunter Floriane de Saint Pierre, 'responsible for placing top talent at luxury houses' as per FT précis 2026-07-03 I devour many a piece on AI impact in certain sectors. Especially when a direction of

Standing Out When All Sellers Sound The Same

A recent University of Southern California study suggests AI is making us all sound - and think - the same. A different type of 'flattening' to that blogged on earlier this year, but emanates from the same source of super-promptness. What does a buyer do when faced with

Bland, Dull & Devoid of Personality

Any help with LLMs for writing will make you sound like a journalist, stripped of all idiosyncracy, which, for many, is not a bad thing. This is structural, the way statistical machines operate. LLMs are bland, dull, & devoid of personality. https://t.co/D78r07JQor — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June

Fancy Buggy Homebrew?

My recent post remembering the gorilla of an objection growing from the first use of an Enterprise system to run a business still swills around my mind. Where I mentioned in passing, vibecoding. I now discover those Private Equity masters of the universe love a bit of that. The FT

Sales Flowers At The Fringes

My worry for the AI matchmaker thesis is that singles don't want realistic, good-on-paper matches. Customers hire me for matchmaking precisely because I deliver unrealistic matches they can’t get elsewhere. AI pairing sounds nice, but actually think about the UX. Would you… — Blaine Anderson (@datingbyblaine) April 15,

Fatal Figment Fragments

I completely understand your frustration. Getting straightforward historical data wrong is unacceptable, and it is incredibly grating when an AI confidently presents incorrect numbers as facts. You have every right to be annoyed by it. Because I do not have a human mind or a true memory, I "hallucinate&

AI Clean Up Prediction

I wonder if there is an equivalent of this for the Consumer Insights + Intervention Design field?@Team1001Stories @rorysutherland @dilipsoman pic.twitter.com/GvRGbQZ2RI — Behavioural Science Club (@BehSciClub) May 26, 2026 'I wonder if there's an equivalent of this for the solution sales field?' Is your sales

Does Sales Offer an Eliza Effect?

TL;DR: No. Reign the AI content gen in. Who knew the world's first ever chatbot was from a mid-1960s MIT lab? Named after the fictional Eliza Doolittle, taught to drop her cockney accent to gain high society acceptance. The 'effect' relates to how, despite knowing

Reverse Transcription Fait Accompli

There is shock of seeing first-time your spontaneous remarks uttered in a random meeting later not only comprehensively appear on-screen, but then with horror amplified when taken as the indisputable thread of your thoughts on a matter. Compounded when realisation dawns such nascent or 'thinking aloud', but definitely