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If you work all day long in software you’ve no idea how …. Messy Illogical Emotional Subjective Complicated Contextual Vague Non standardized Most work is Most jobs are largely about persuasion, motivation, relationships, fear, ego. Your logic doesn’t help — Tom Goodwin (@tomfgoodwin) February 13, 2026 I bet you'

1982. The Human League album Dare became the first electronic pop worldwide smash. The London branch of the Musicians' Union were not happy. They began a campaign to ban the synthesiser. That LP's Producer Martin Rushent became a figurehead against such moves. In echoes of today, he

Over the past couple of years, research crystal-ballers Gartner may have tempered the drive to go all-in autorepping. Here's a couple of their such recent findings. "Our research reveals that 75% of B2B buyers prefer a rep-free sales experience. But self-service digital purchases are far more likely

AI told me the title above is how I should tell people what I do. Specifically related to my long-standing New Product Rescue skills. I asked how it might zhuzh my current 8-word mission. It added the suffix '-grade', and swapped out my ending of 'failing'

Remember when all you'd hear was of prompt engineering? People getting jobs from nowhere on Premier League footballer salaries. Who'd supposedly mastered the art of the super prompt. Hear much about these prompt whisperers today? As this new year dawns from such single plant a veritable

Can it really be twelve months since this..?! Talent Stack 25There’s been plenty of ‘one-percent’ style doctrines down the years. One outlasting scrutiny, is that it is incredibly tough to be in the top one percent for anything. The fluke of gift, the trick of graft, the lottery of

"Despite $30-40bn in enterprise investment into Gen[erative]AI, [our] report uncovers a surprising result in that 95pc of organisations are getting zero return" — MIT Researchers, August 2025 This finding - albeit seemingly from a questionably small and opaque sample size - coincidentally landed just as ChatGPT5'